Three violent deaths on Valentine's Day, 1960 stun the residents of a small southwestern Florida city. The coroner's inquest rules it a case of murder and suicide by an aggrieved wife. But the seventy-year-old editor of the local newspaper is convinced it is something other than just a case of jealousy, revenge and remorse. When his long-time antagonist, the Chief of Police, retires, he has little hope his successor will continue the investigation...