Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are at an apartment in the west 30s. It's near midnight, and every light in the apartment is turned on to flood it out. Virginia Cordell woke in her bed to find an intruder standing over her. She screamed and her husband, who had dozed off in the library, ran in with the fire iron and hit him, killing him. Well that's the story they're telling Danny anyway...