"You can't talk me into this!" Kit said hysterically. "I'm not going to do it!..... I keep thinking of her studying her stupid books night after night while you are planning to murder her! I won't do it! I'd rather stay poor…."
But Dave Calvin had other ideas and as the new manager of the Pittsville bank nobody had better access to the weekly payroll of three hundred thousand dollars. Nobody that is except his assistant, Alice Craig -- a spinster with no parents, no relatives, nobody to care whether she lived or died. So if the bank was robbed and Alice suddenly disappeared she would become the obvious suspect. Dave Calvin knew just how to make her disappear -- but he needed the help of Kit Loring, and a woman who is an ex-alcoholic isn't the most reliable partner for murder...