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***SPOILERS*** For 12 long years Munro Dean, George Mitchell, has been trying to track down his wife's killer and has gone through 40 detective agencies in doing it. Now sure then he found him he gets in touch with #41 private detective William Tyre, James Franciscus, to do a job for him. Whack Otto, Jack Weston, the book and record store owner whom he's positive murdered his wife. This , killing a man, is something that Tyre never expected to do and,in fear of going to the electric chair if he did, never will no matter how much Dean pays him to do it.

Tyre feeling that it's far better to get the two men, Dean & Otto, to meet at his hotel room #305 at the Bayshore Hotel and smooth out their differences Otto, who doesn't know that Dean would be there, goes along with the idea. With Tyre now out of the loop he still feels he has to know how the meeting went and decides to pay the two, Otto & Dean, a visit before the blood starts flowing. It's then in room #305 that Tyre is in for the surprise of his life in what he sees going on there.

***SPOILERS*** It's in room #305 that Tyre finally got to know if what Dean told him was the honest truth: Did Otto in fact murder his wife! But what he also got to know was the circumstances behind Dean's wife's murder. As well why Dean was so certain that Otto murdered her. But most shocking of all why Dean wanted Otto whacked and it wasn't for murdering his wife! It was to keep him quite in not letting out just who hired Otto to murder her!

James Franciscus plays William Tyre, a private detective. Munro Dean enters his office and offers to hire him to find the man who killed his wife. Now all sorts of red flags soon appear. First, Dean claims to have used 40 detectives already to find the killer. Second, it's pretty obvious Dean plans to kill the man once he's found. Yet, oddly, Tyre agrees to check into the man who Dean thinks is the killer AND set him up to be killed. This really didn't make a lot of sense...especially as Tyre has no idea if the story is true or if the man deserves to die.

This is an okay episiode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". The story is interesting but it also seems unlikely. Why would a private eye who claims to be honest take such a case? Why would 40 others be on the case before him? And, most importantly, why didn't Tyre check with the police to find out what's really afoot here? A lot of unanswered questions in a modestly interesting episode.

This is one of those episodes that is so far fetched that it really never makes it. It is done in a noir style with James Franciscus as the private detective. A man comes to his office, trying to get him to seek out the guy who murdered his wife years ago. The detective doesn't want the case because things just smell bad. But Jack Weston has been identified as the guy. There is a lot of negotiating and finally things are set up. It's all taken care of, but what bothers me is how did it take some 12 years to find this guy and why did it take forty detectives to do the work? Anyway, while it's a cute story, it just seems ludicrous. I also had trouble with James Franciscus being the detective--seems bad casting.