Cora Shumway

Une jeune femme fantaisiste avoue un crime qu'elle n'a pas commis et se fait défendre par son mari, avocat. Acquittée, elle découvre le vrai meurtrier.

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.