Publisher Alexander Vinton (John Williams) is curious about a novel that has been submitted to him, in which a woman murders her husband. Somehow, the descriptive passages in the novel suggest that it is not a work of fiction at all, but instead something of a biography. Thus, Vinton pays a visit to the location in which the novel is set -- and has a fateful encounter with the sister (Evelyn Varden) of first-time author Julia Pickering (Patricia Collinge). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi