So Much in the Dark

Two figures in the lighted window of a riverside bungalow, a man watching in the mist, two shots in the dark, and a car racing wildly through the night. These were some of the circumstances attendant upon the sudden and violent death of Mrs. Clifford; wayward wife of the intensely respectable manager of one of Mainford's best known stores. A shocking business; yet one which might have lived and died in the headlines of the local paper but for a number of factors which indicated that this was no ordinary smalltown tragedy. Were there things in the lives of certain other Mainford citizens which might not bear the cold light of investigation?