THis play is the other pairing of Rose and Hecht I've heard thus far, complemented by Mandel Kramer, Nat Polin and Joan Lovejoy, the latter with a pretty accent which makes her less whiskey-voiced than she often sounded (probably on purpose).

Rose plays "Lawrence Ducot", whose actress wife Jenny has just overdosed from sleeping pills. He meets up with a detective, played by Hecht, right after a press conference in which he (Rose's character) announces that he doesn't believe his wife killed herself. Very few people knew Jenny Ducot was married. The detective doesn't say who's hired him but says his client thinks the death is suspicious as well, but says he personally believes she overdosed on purpose.

Rose digs deeper, and finds out his wife (who, though married to him kept at long distance and believed, apparently, in the 70s concept of an open, sexually "free" marriage) was apparently terrified of something from her past. Visiting with her former lover in Greece (whoops, there's that country again) he confides that his wife: A) told Msr. Ducot to "trust no one", and B) kept a diary. Ducot learns that the lover was the one who hired the private detective, and is admonished that despite his wife's warnings he's already trusting people who may not be deserving of it. Rose tells us in narration that he's not told him everything, though...he thinks Jenny gave him clues as to where the diary will be.

Going to Paris (where he's nearly killed by a car) he goes to an old friend at a Flower shop his late wife loved. The diary is there, and right as he's leaving, so is the detective, who tries to catch the car that almost ran Ducot down. Later, they go to a hotel room where Ducot starts reading the diary.

He learns his wife, in the early days of her career, joined the "Val Porges (sic?) club", which essentially was a coven of witches with members throughout the entertainment industry and elsewhere. She launched her career with the director (who recruited her for the coven) of the movie "Woman from Hell"...which she got the lead role in. From her diary, it's apparent that Jenny Ducot is very uneasy with the coven's members, noting that even if they've not got supernatural powers, they believe in these Satanic rituals, and that people who believe like this "can be dangerous". That fear seems to be borne out in her diary when she learns that a woman who threatens to expose the club is killed in a car crash...

Tremendous casting, and tremendous use of RMT music in this one, on a par with "The hand".