Synopsis

Della requests twenty-five thousand dollars from Perry on behalf of her friend, Janet Brent, who is the victim of blackmail. Edward Franklin, an employee of Janet’s husband, has fabricated compromising photographs of her at a motel. At a gathering, Janet confronts Franklin and strikes him with a small statue of a dog, its expression one of exhaustion. The police apprehend Della after discovering her driving Janet's car away from the scene of the altercation. Franklin is dead, struck three times