With five days left until Christmas 1942, Shepard's Department Store Vice President James Burkhart hires private investigator Nicholas Chambers to quietly probe the murky past of his future son-in-law. What begins as a discreet background check leads to a mysterious group operating on the outskirts of Providence. Soon an eccentric art collector hires Chambers to acquire a rare Austrian clock, while a beautiful French woman pulls him further into the mystery,
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