Clark's heroine, Molly Carpenter Lasch, is a tall, slender, twenty-six-year-old, noted for her regal beauty, dark blond hair, and long eyelashes. To all appearances, she has been the dream wife, working for Vogue and bringing class, wealth, and beauty to her marriage, but her husband's murder shatters this image. In the media, she becomes an emblem of the very rich who think themselves above the law, and even those nearest to her are convinced of her guilt. Her husband's skull has been smashed in with a heavy bronze sculpture, and the court finds Molly guilty of his murder. Shy and tentative to begin with, Molly cannot defend herself because she has closed her mind on those moments and has thus left herself vulnerable to the envious, who assume her amnesia is a ploy. Nonetheless, despite the lethargy and passivity that result from her psychological state, at her core...