Blind Impulse

In “Blind Impulse,” smooth-talking Steve Consello thinks he’s hit the jackpot when wealthy socialite Carol Crandall proposes marriage, fully aware he wants her money. His plan is simple: stay married just long enough for her ailing father to die, collect half the estate under community-property laws, then return to Millie—the woman he actually loves—after a quiet divorce. But everything unravels when Carol’s father miraculously recovers, Millie sends a desperate cable, and Carol discovers Steve’s secret the same day he learns the inheritance he counted on won’t be coming anytime soon. Cornered and terrified his scheme is falling apart, Steve snaps on a mule trail in the Grand Canyon and murders Carol’s father by driving his horse over a cliff. What he doesn’t know is that Carol watched the whole thing from a public telescope. Because the law won’t allow a wife to testify against her husband, she coldly lets him walk free—until Millie arrives and unknowingly delivers the final blow. Her telegram proves Steve was never legally divorced, which means Carol was never his wife at all... and she can testify to the murder. The trap slams shut exactly where Steve never expected it.