span style=font-size:12pxMystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when shes not philandering with her secretarys fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor: George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime of Janets estranged husband. George insinuates himself into Janets home and life despite her efforts to get rid of him; the tangled relationships develop into a macabre, murderous cat-and-mouse game. span