A fine film noir ,mainly in its first part : after the murder of her husband ,the wife escapes and wanders in the streets of the town , where every inhabitant is a living threat (close shots on the face) .She becomes the first suspect and the headlines of the newspapers mention her name and her photograph for all to see .
The second part is more conventional , in the tradition of Agatha Christie (but not as brilliant as her plots) ,where the detective knows the name of the murderer but has no evidence , the gathering of all suspects to set a trap to catch him ....It occurs just after WW2 ,and there is a hint at Himmler's and Goering's suicides ,because the victim was actually murdered twice...
The flashbacks reveal a hateful victim,who took his lover at home and imposed a menage à trois to her wife ; and not only the distraught wife ,but other people had motives to get rid of this go-getter : the husband's brother in love with his sister-in-law; the cousin ,Olle, who has a crush on her too and wants to run the business; the aunt ,a past master in poisons for she used to work in a pharmacy ......
Eva Henning has a Hitckockian look , which brightens up this mist.
