Miles Bowman was a private detective in San Francisco. He and his partner, Tom Trencher, were hired by a woman calling herself Claire Lenoir to follow a man named Evan Thursday. While on the job, Trencher was murdered. As Trencher had been having an affair with Bowman's wife Eva, suspicion immediately fell on Bowman, who was himself having an affair with the office secretary, Hester Prine. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.