Lee Patterson, playing an airline pilot, in an unhappy marriage, gets driven home by a beautiful airline hostess. He goes straight to bed, only to be woken up the following morning by a police officer who asks him about the whereabouts of his wife's dented car, the result of a car accident, and more importantly, where his wife could be located. Patterson denies that his wife had returned to the house in the car. However, the police officer is not convinced, and so checks the garage and finds the dented car, and then a moment later, her dead body in the studio with a knife sticking in her back. When later questioned by a police superintendent, Patterson admits that the knife that the killer used was something he had bought for his wife as a honeymoon gift! In all honesty, what happens next is incredible. Instead of being taken down to the police station for further questioning, and being 'grilled' in the process, he's advised not to go too far from the house without informing the police! I can't see that happening in New York, or come to that matter, anywhere! Patterson then decides to act the sleuth and track down the killer of his wife, while the police appear to do sweet nothing! Geoffrey Keen puts in his usual competent performance as the police superintendent but his limited time on the screen gives him no more than what is essentially a cameo role. Indeed, the only interview he conducts is with Patterson's 'daily help' to ascertain whether Patterson was on good terms with his murdered wife! After that, the police become more or less become redundant in the murder inquiry. Although Patterson does a reasonable job as the husband, who is determined to clear his name by finding his wife's killer, we never see any depth to his character, hence it never becomes a gripping drama. But the real problem is with a storyline which defies belief.