A middle-aged man with a socially correct wife is trying to break his chains because of a loving secretary, and when a playboy is murdered, with suspicion attached to his about to be married niece and her fiancé -- his is the problem. To sacrifice his wife, his mistress, his niece -- his own dream of happiness -- is the torment through which George Hadley veers while smooth New York City's Inspector Trant hovers over all the ins- and outs -- that George and his family devise.