True Confession

Kenneth Bartlett is a struggling criminal trial lawyer--struggling because he respects truthfulness and honesty above all else, so refuses to take cases unless the potential client is innocent of the charges. However, his supportive wife Helen, a hobby writer, often tells lies, not just little white ones but big bald-faced ones, as a means to an end and in her creative mindset, not even realizing she's doing it until she's halfway through the lie and it's too late to take back what she's said. Ken knows this of her. Because they are struggling financially, Helen wants to get a job, which is against Ken's wishes as he believes this would be her admitting that he's a failure, so she job-seeks on the sly. She accepts a lucrative secretarial job from wealthy old family friend Otto Krayler although she can barely hunt-and-peck on a typewriter. After she meets with him for the first time, she discovers that his intentions toward his secretaries are more amorous than professional. After she runs out on the job to escape his unwanted advances, she is arrested when he is found murdered. Ken acts as her defense attorney; what she eventually tells him of the incident and his resulting defense might complicate their relationship whether or not he can get her acquitted. Complicating things more is Charley Jasper, a seemingly off-kilter man who could know more about what's going on than his crazed rantings to Helen demonstrate.