It’s nowhere near the upper echelon of Gothic noir, but Maurice Elvey’s The Late Edwina Black (US: Obsessed), based on a successful stage play by William Dinner and William Morum, builds toward a whirlpool of suspicion that nearly destroys the two lovers who benefit from a murder early in the film. When a sickly Victorian woman dies and the autopsy turns up arsenic in her system, suspicion immediately falls on her husband Gregory Black (David Farrar), who had been having an affair with live-in nurse Elizabeth Grahame (Geraldine Fitzgerald). As the dead woman’s presence descends on the household, like a ghostly Rebecca, the romantic relief felt by Gregory and Elizabeth quickly turns to distrust, then disdain, then dread. A wonderful Jean Cadell is on hand as bitter housekeeper Ellen who presumes the couple’s involvement in the poisoning, and Roland Culver leads the investigation as Scotland Yard Inspector Martin.