A successful successor to the Mystery-Writer-Award winning The Man Who Disappeared concentrates on the criminal predicament of prominent Charles Holm whose first wife returns from the dead to blackmail him and is then murdered. While Holm hides out, perhaps unwisely, his prospective son-in-law, a newspaperman, collaborates with the police to connect the murder with a recent kidnapping and a highly original and invidious extortion game... You'll stay right with it- stay up too.