The Moving Finger

Mark Tuesday, insurance broker and owner of the Tuesday Agency, is brooding in his office, after hours, about his failing marriage with his wife, Marie, when he receives a phone call from the owner of a large trucking company and new client of the agency, informing him that one of his trucks has crashed, and the driver has been killed. The owner, Ben Wozniak, asks him to go to the scene of the crash and investigate the scene.At the scene, he discovers there had been two witnesses, one of whom a man named William Closer had already left, and a young woman named Elise Young who, he realizes, is his daughter's school teacher. He feels an immediate and disturbing attraction for her and after examining the scene, and recognizing that the crash occurred under questionable circumstances persuades her to let him drive her home. But, before leaving with her, he also speaks with two sheriff deputies present at the scene, both of whom appear strange in...