Who DIDN'T want to murder Nathan Stanley? Stella Hart has less than a month to finish her latest picture and sail home to England to marry her darling George. If she postpones the wedding again, her mother will disown her, and even the groom is getting restless. When her swashbuckling co-star smashes into a wall and breaks his nose, putting production on indefinite hold, she and George make plans to slip away and leave the movie unfinished. But studio head Nathan Stanley has other ideas. He threatens Stella with scandal and ruin if she doesn't stay in Hollywood. As a free agent and the future wife of a baronet, she can afford to let him do his worst. But when Stanley turns up stabbed to death with a dueling sword, somebody has to solve the murder.