Jacqueline deWit

Ethel Whitehead leaves her laborer husband behind to find a new, better life, and meets a rich gangster that leads her to a life of wealth and luxury. She engineers a rivalry, however, that sparks the ruin of everything she has fought to gain.

A released convict whose wife was mysteriously murdered rigs his house with booby traps at his island estate for the very suspects he’s invited over.