Klassisk film noir om en äldre man som faller för en ung kvinna. Kvinnan får honom att tro att hon är intresserad, för att hon och hennes fästman ska kunna dra nytta av honom.

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.