Samuel Lynchberg was the business manager to Odette Morton, the socialite-star whose murder gets "A Dance With Death" under way. While he does turn out to be the murderer, he did not kill Odette. She had already died in a train accident long before. Barbra Landau, Odette's secret body double, used the accident to take Odette's identity. When Landau began paying blackmail to avoid her secret being revealed, Lynchberg thought that she had returned to her frivolous ways and confronted her. Landau and Lynchberg inadvertently revealed their secrets to one another.