***SPOILERS*** Sick & tired of putting up with his nagging and overbearing wife Herimoe, Isobel Elsom, Herbert Carpenter, John Williams, plans to get her out of his life permanently before he checks out of the UK to America. That's by burying her in the house basement, after murdering Herimoe, that he claims to be building a wine cellar in. With the grizzly job done in finishing the "Wine Cellar" and knocking off Herimoe and burying her there Herbert now takes of to sunny Bevery Hills California to start a new life and finally enjoy the fruits, the money he plans to get for his cheap dime novels, of his labor.
With what he thinks his old home and everything there, including his murdered wife, back in Great Britain now a thing of the past he get a letter addressed to Herimoe for a Christmas present that she secretly bought for him her loving husband. The poor schmuck in claiming he was building a wine cellar in the basement had Herimoe plan to secretly help him out with it. That help in the end will not only expose him as his wife's murderer but reveal where he ended up burying her!
The guy, Herbert Carpenter, got exactly what he deserved a one way trip to the gallows. But the irony of all that is that the very person whom her planned and in fact did murder in a strange twist of fate while she was still alive by rewarding him for his labor of digging up room in his basement for a wine cellar ended up unknowingly exposing him as her killer!
With what he thinks his old home and everything there, including his murdered wife, back in Great Britain now a thing of the past he get a letter addressed to Herimoe for a Christmas present that she secretly bought for him her loving husband. The poor schmuck in claiming he was building a wine cellar in the basement had Herimoe plan to secretly help him out with it. That help in the end will not only expose him as his wife's murderer but reveal where he ended up burying her!
The guy, Herbert Carpenter, got exactly what he deserved a one way trip to the gallows. But the irony of all that is that the very person whom her planned and in fact did murder in a strange twist of fate while she was still alive by rewarding him for his labor of digging up room in his basement for a wine cellar ended up unknowingly exposing him as her killer!