This article: Helen Brent has just received a divorce in Reno, Nevada. That night, she goes to a casino and makes eye contact with a man who, though she does not know it then, is Sam Wilde, the other boyfriend of Laury Palmer, who has been her neighbor during her stay in Nevada. Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone cutting in on him, spots Laury in the casino with her gentleman caller, Danny and then lays in wait at her house to kill both of them. When Helen returns home, she finds Laury's dog loose outside and puts it back inside, discovering the bodies of Danny and Laury. 
Helen starts to call the police; but instead decides to go to the train station, expecting the killer will go there.  She's planning to leave town for San Francisco anyway (since she has her divorce).  As she expected, Sam is at the train station too.  Helen is instantly attracted to his self-confidence and brutality, but she is engaged to marry a wealthy boyfriend, Fred in San Francisco.  Sam wants to call on her there; he arrives at Helen's residence and meets Georgia Staples, Helen's foster sister, also rich. Sam soon shifts his attentions to her and, after a whirlwind romance, marries her for her money. Helen sees this clearly but neither this, nor Helen's engagement, nor Sam's realization that she has learned the truth about the murders, is an impediment to their having an affair.
Meanwhile, back in Reno, Mrs. Kraft, the owner of the boarding house where Helen lived, has hired a mercenary, verse-quoting detective, Albert Arnett, to find out who killed Laury. The detective follows Sam's friend, Marty, to San Francisco. Marty attends Sam's wedding; Arnett inserts himself in the kitchen where he begins asking many questions about Sam. Helen speaks to Arnett, who will not reveal who hired him but suggests that Sam is responsible for the Reno murders. contains an answer for the question: What are the first names of Laury's two boyfriends?, what is it ?


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