A crippled man drives his car to the edge of a cliff and looks over. Later, Lowell Gilmore, who is crippled, calls Charlie and tells him that someone is trying to kill him. Charlie asks to talk to his wife, but they find a ransom note on the beach. Virginia Gregg is Gilmore's secretary. She is closely questioned by police officer Dayton Lummis. She says that Gilmore's wife is a parasite. Liam Sullivan, an artist, has painted a portrait of the wife. Charlie questions him. He says that she was his model before she married Gilmore, and that Charlie will find the answer a little closer to home.
Gilmore tells Charlie and Lummis that he has found a recording in his car. It is the voice of Gilmore's wife, giving him instructions for leaving the money. They discover that the recording is a phoney, made in Gilmore's house. Then they find his wife dead. They catch Sullivan as involved in the sham kidnap plot, but he claims he did not kill her. Charlie believes him and tells Gilmore that. Gilmore catches Gregg searching the room of the crime. He draws a gun on her, but Chan arrives in time to stop him from shooting. Gregg confesses to the murder.
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