Arthur Anderson, a wealthy English gentleman, has a problem: his wives keep dying. After the demise-by-drowning of spouse numéro three, the company against whom he keeps insuring their lives (who probably should have just refused his custom) initiate legal action against Arthur, which leads to a murder trial. An exhumation of the deceased's body shows vast quantities of barbiturates, which had been purchased by Arthur, but he is found not guilty after his housekeeper perjures herself on the witness stand. The very night Arthur arrives back in his countryside mansion, a bubbly American lady takes an impromptu midnight dip in his pool and proceeds to flirt outrageously with him when he politely asks her to leave. The lady, Julie Spencer, who might as well have 'honeytrap' tattooed on her forehead, gets married to Arthur, who might as well have 'easy mark' tattooed on his forehead, within a month. And so we settle in to see who will crack first - the potential ladykiller or the potential entrapmenter. There's also a mysterious blonde lady knocking about the place (presumably literally, as she wears sunglasses even in the dead of night). Who'll kill whom first? Why are the police chracaters so broadly comic? And who is a sister of whom (you don't get three dead ladies and two mysterious alive ladies in a giallo without some familial ties, after all)? All will be revealed...
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