The plot synopsis of A Lonely Place

Dixon Steele is a playwright who values ??friendship but is cynical on the surface. Once, he was thinking about how to adapt a third-rate novel into a screenplay in a hotel. Mildred, the cloakroom manager, happened to have read the book. To save trouble, he asked her to come to his house after get off work and tell him the story. listen. Mildred was found murdered the next day. Female neighbor Laurel Gray testified that Mildred did leave Steele's home alone that night. As a result, Steele and Laurel began to date and have feelings. But the police and Steele's former friends did not let him go. The rumors hurt their sincere feelings, which made Laurel suspicious of Steele, and Steele's temper became rough and arrogant. . The angry and disappointed Steele almost confirmed others' slander against him with his own actions: because he could not get Laurel's love, he almost killed her. At this time, the police caught the real murderer, but the emotional gap was no longer the same as before, and they had to break up painfully.