Ben Calvert and his new wife Jessie peered out of the window of the taxi which was to take them back to the hotel in Los Angeles. As the driver turned toward the highway in front of Kitt Mead's house at Malibu Beach the moving beam picked out the dripping shrubbery at the side of the house, settling for a moment on the little landing halfway up the stairs. It had flashed passed too quickly to reveal the motionless form of Kitt Mead, where she lay unconscious at the foot of the stairs...