The Man Who Loved His Wife — Vera Caspary

Parting Gesture

Elaine: Ripe, passionate, womanly -- she was married to an older man no longer able to be her husband.

Fletcher: His goal in life was suicide -- but he wasn't going to reach it until her found a way to make his wife look like his murderess.

The Diary: The perfect means of revenge and self-destruction -- cunningly filled with paragraphs of suspicion designed to doom and innocent woman.