In the next few minutes, a perfect crime will take place. A crime will be committed and the criminal will get away with it. Or will he? Is there such a thing as a perfect crime? "The man in black, Paul Frees (who also hosted Escape), narrates The Black Book (also known as The Man in Black). Each week, as a different character, he commits "the perfect crime, cold and calculated. But each week he makes one fatal mistake. Can you discover it before the mistake is revealed? One week he pushes the bellman out of the belfry. Another week nature, rather than man, traps the criminal. In another, the dead victim traps the killer.