The Suspect

His Was a Strange Secret, Hers Was a Strange Love

A noir-inflected moral descent in which a mild-mannered man's secret murder and forbidden desire spiral into paranoia and blackmail.

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.