警界名人瑞克在调查一宗商业大亨的命案中倍感棘手，这件受到大众媒体瞩目的命案，曾经一度以为破案，尔后却发现疑点重重而办案期间，瑞克与被害人的遗孀哈莉，两人双双坠入情网。哈莉的年轻貌美令瑞克无力招架，迷惘之余却有情报告知，命案的幕后主使人是哈莉，这一宗杀夫案或是一场美人计？ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 这是1996年的另外一部电影，中译名也是"一级谋杀"，而不是1995年的Murder in the First，请大家不要混淆了，正确条目在此http://www.douban.com/subject/1293373/ 海报文字描述已更正，若再出现差错纰漏，请大家帮忙投票更正。When prominent businessman Andrew Pyne is found shot in a New York alley, one of the NYPD's best, Rick Mallory, suspects a Galeno Mob hit. When he and his partner, Amos Turzo try to question Pyne's widow, Hadley, they are quickly ushered out by her mother-in-law Margeaux. Later when Rick comes back to search Pyne's apartment, he finds material linking the dead man with Endtook, the Galeno's company. The police raid Joe Galeno's house and find the gun that killed Pyne. Joe Galeno is arrested and Rick returns to the Pyne apartment to tell Hadley. She is very distraught, and as Rick comforts her, they become engaged in an ardent affair. Joe Galeno's cousin, Alonzo, is convinced Joe is innocent. He hires Rico Perrini, Rick's former partner, now a private detective, to work on the case. Rico tracks down Pyne's rumored killer, a low-life thug named Tony Fabian, who confesses that Hadley paid him to kill her husband. Rick is now under suspicion and transferred out of homicide. Rick knows Hadley is not guilty; he also knows that Joe Galeno is not the killer. To save the woman he loves, Rick must track down the real killer.
