Amatørkunstneren Chris Cross får et guldur efter 25 år i firmaet. Dette ur er alt, han ejer af værdi. Da han møder den bedårende Kitty, tror hun, at han er velhavende, og kvinden og hendes kæreste begynder at lægge en udspekuleret plan.

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.