寂寞孤心

Adam White hustles into a gig as a newspaper advice columnist, betting it'll springboard him into real journalism. Trouble is, his boss Shrike's a sadistic type who revels in tormenting his boozed-up wife Florence over her old fling, then dumps wildly mismatched stories on his underlings just to watch them squirm. When Shrike eggs Adam on to track down Fay Doyle—one of those weepy, woe-is-me readers who wastes no time throwing herself at him—things get messy fast. Adam's loyalty to the rag pulls one way, his steady girl Justy the other, leaving him tangled in ambition and temptation in this sharp 1950s new