Terror in Venice

Living alone in Paris at the end of a love affair, Julie Rubempre receives a strange phone call one evening from a woman claiming that a Mr. Faranacci had heard of her work at the American Express and was in immediate need of a new secretary.However, when she appears for an interview the next day, she is told no one from that office has any knowledge of the call which has summoned her. Angered, she is about to leave when Faranacci, himself, agrees to give her a chance. It is not long before Julie succumbs to the appeal of her lavishly wealthy, sensually attractive new boss. And it is not long before he asks her to marry him. As if in a dream, Julie finds herself blissfully in love and entering his splendid Venetian palazzo. But no sooner has she passed through the magnificent marble entrance hall when she discovers the first clue to the consuming horror she is about to experience. It is an urgent cablegram from her former lover and close friend: DO NOT MARRY DANILO FARANACCI. HE WILL PLOT YOUR DEATH AS HE PLOTTED YOUR MARRIAGE. LETTER WILL FOLLOW. -ERIC