Black Widow

Recently arrived in Manhattan from her hometown of Savannah, twenty year old aspiring writer Nancy Ordway, outwardly innocent but underlyingly scheming, is able to insinuate herself into a certain segment of Broadway elite, she only using her aging uncle, Gordon Ling, a bit player, as a jumping off point. As an uninvited guest at a lavish party at the apartment of Broadway diva Carlotta Marin and her non-theater husband Brian Mullen, Nanny meets Peter Denver, the producer of the hit show in which Lottie stars, she who Peter admits he doesn't much like as a person, and Uncle Gordon is a featured player. Peter, who lives in the same apartment building, only attended the party as a vow to his currently absent wife, Broadway star Iris Denver, to keep the peace with Lottie in seeing how close their lives are intertwined. Feeling somewhat sorry for Nanny, Peter, solely in an act of kindness with no intention of romance, offers his and Iris' apartment as a place to write during the day as long as Iris is out of town in Nanny implying that her current abode is unconducive to getting any work done. The Denvers arriving home after Peter picks up Iris from the airport, they discover Nanny's dead body hanging in their bathroom in what appears to be a suicide. But when lead police investigator Detective Bruce discovers further evidence including that Nanny was murdered, Peter moves to the top of the suspect list. With evidence piling up against him, Peter decides his best course of action is to evade the police and investigate on his own to clear his name. Written by Huggo