Arthur Appleby has been widowed three times, and run three antique shops in different towns. He has just opened a fourth.
Arthur Appleby's a bit of a Bluebeard; he's killed his prior wives and used the insurance money to open a succession of antique shops. He meets Martha, whom he marks down as his next 'wife'. She tells him if anything happens to her she's left instructions that Appleby's responsible.—don @ minifie-1