Next background and personality piece work in the backtracking of the death of once famous star, Richard Winter, whose non-appearance the opening night of his return to the stage leads to the discovery of his killing Warron, special section, C.I.D., refuses to be called off his hunt for the killer, finds competition in the information newspaperman Stuart noodles him with, untanglos family and public scandals surrounding the dead man, and confronts the killer with motive and opportunity and means, in a properly patterned expose of the crime.