The Passion Of Slow Fire

Stewart is an American student who boards at the home of professor Desailly and his frigid wife. When the girl is found murdered, the professor becomes the prime suspect as evidence appears strongly against the innocent man. He changes his life and has an affair, but he becomes obsessed by Stewart's death and kills the woman he is involved with. He becomes a murderer at the same time the police announce that they've received a confession from the man who really killed Stewart. An entertaining crime drama from a novel by the masterful Georges Simenon.