Novelization of 1957 United Artists motion picture, VALERIE, with Sterling Hayden, Anita Edberg, and Anthony Steel. Young, lonely, filled with desire, she came from a foreign land to marry the town's hero - and when she had him and his money her own, she proceeded to blacken his name, to drag it though mire, until he found himself facing the charge of - MURDER! Some of the townsfolk took her side; other called her a slattern vixen, and worse! Who was she? What was she? And one a man had found out - could he save himself?