Frederick Knott and Dial M for Murder

Husband gets X to kill his wife.She kills X.Husband fixes things to make it appear that she had murdered X.Wife arrested for murder.orWife convicted and about to be hanged. So wrote Frederick Knott--an idea for a half-hour television drama he might sell to a British production company. But the company went bankrupt, leaving Knott at a low, almost hopeless moment in his career. In an act of sheer...