Bookseller Frank Logan, inspired by reading the classics, starts using them to resolve the personal problems in his life. While devouring "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and "Crime And Punishment", he murders his unfaithful wife's lover with a medieval mace then cryptically taunts her with what he's done. Alarmed at what her husband is hinting at, she confides in her brother who, in turn, enlists the aid of a private detective. Engrossed in "An American Tragedy", Frank kills both men and makes it look like a boating accident but in the meantime, his promiscuous spouse has taken up with a young stud as Frank begins perusing Edgar Alan Poe's "The Black Cat"...
Over-the-top classic TV episode that goes THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR one better. The Robert Bloch story, directed by John "The Lodger" Brahm, is amusingly macabre with a decent body count and an ironic comeuppance; Edward Andrews as Frank is both funny and chilling.