Eight years after the famous movie actress, Christine Clay, thought she was rid of him, her husband shows up from nowhere. He''s furious that she left him, outraged over her "silly Reno divorce" and indignant that she is now spending her time with "boys." The quarrel is barely over before her body washes up on the beach near her home. She didn''t drown. She was strangled with the belt of a raincoat.