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SYNOPSIS:
When PAUL VAIL’s wealthy bride, CAROL, is crushed between the keel of the yacht he’s sailing and the beach, her Aunt AGATHA accuses him of murder. The death is ruled an accident. Agatha tries to have Paul killed but he retreats into a luxurious secure loft, where he stay for fifteen years, compiling crossword puzzles for The Monitor, the newspaper he’s inherited a quarter interest in. An artist is crucified in his studio. Beside him is a crossword clue. KAREN, a reporter from The Monitor, persuades LIEUTENANT BROWER, homicide, to let Paul help solve the clue. Paul is reluctant to help but Karen is cute and there’s another clue, to a murder that hasn’t yet been committed, and another, and another. Each time, Paul solves the clue too late to save the victim from a gory death. Brower begins to suspect that Paul is the killer. Karen asks Paul probing questions about his wife’s death, which crushes their budding romance. When Paul solves a clue before the murder and she can’t drive him in to see Brower, Karen arranges for The Monitor’s lawyer, Kit, to take him in. Paul is on the rebound and Kit makes it obvious she finds him attractive. Once more, they are too late to prevent the murder – and there are connections, tenuous ones, between Paul and several of the victims. Paul takes both Karen and Kit to dinner but it’s Kit who drives him back to his loft, and who stays overnight. The sex is hot, and kinky. While Paul works on another clue, Brower uncovers a victim, buried with souvenirs of previous crimes, under the floor in Paul’s building. Paul is arrested but Kit springs him – and takes his mind off his problems with more kinky sex. When Paul wakes the next morning, Kit is gone. He frets through the day until two more clues are delivered to his loft, clues that tell him that both Kit and he are to be the next victims, and where. Karen drives Paul to The Monitor, where they find Kit, apparently suspended above a stack of newsprint rolls. Paul tries to climb to the rescue but is stopped when Kit and Karen reveal that they are his dead wife’s sisters, setting him up to be crushed to death at the hands of someone he loves – just as Carol died. Kit accidentally dislodges the pile and falls, clinging to the underside of a roll, to land on Karen. She and Kit are crushed – inseparably – as the Coroner remarks.