Whodunit
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- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellJean ArthurJames HallA beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the crime was also killed. Only one man, debonair detective, Philo Vance, might be able to figure out who silenced 'the Canary'.
- DirectorDavid BurtonNick GrindeStarsBasil RathboneLeila HyamsRoland YoungWhen the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellFlorence EldridgeUllrich HauptAt the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year, they start being mysteriously murdered one by one, and the police use Philo Vance to examine the clues and suspects.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellWilliam 'Stage' BoydEugene PalletteA ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellMary AstorEugene PallettePhilo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsWarren WilliamMargaret LindsayLyle TalbotThe Stamm family gives a small party prior to daughter Bernice's marriage to socialite Monty, but all of the guests seem to be against the match.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsPaul LukasAlison SkipworthDonald CookAfter socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsEdmund LoweVirginia BruceBenita HumeTwo people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides but Vance suspects hypnosis and foul play.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGracie AllenWarren WilliamEllen DrewThe zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a nightclub that night, Gracie inadvertently links Bill to the murder of a thug after finding the dead body and Bill's cigarette case at the scene of the crime. While being questioned at the club, she meets Vance who's investigating the homicide. After Gracie's bungled attempts to solve the case, Vance decides it might be easier to have her working with him. Despite Gracie's "help," the two eventually find the real killer.
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsRalph BellamyJune CollyerClaude GillingwaterDetective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRalph BellamyShirley GreyArthur HohlInspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRalph BellamyShirley GreyGail PatrickAn actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsEdna May OliverJames GleasonBruce CabotA pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.
- DirectorLloyd CorriganStarsEdna May OliverJames GleasonLola LaneA schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.
- DirectorWilliam HamiltonEdward KillyStarsJames GleasonHelen BroderickLouise LatimerAfter Hildegarde proves that the accidental riding death on a Central Park bridle path is really murder, she's faced with a plethora of red herrings and a real killer.
- DirectorBen HolmesStarsJames GleasonZasu PittsOwen Davis Jr.A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJames GleasonZasu PittsMarjorie LordWhile Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsSidney TolerMarjorie WeaverRobert LoweryWhen Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsMargaret RutherfordArthur KennedyMuriel PavlowWhen Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsPreston FosterFrank JenksCarol HughesA detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
- DirectorOtis GarrettStarsDonald WoodsNan GreyEdgar KennedyDishonest mine owner Nicholas Rood finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder: Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant; and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect.
- DirectorOtis GarrettStarsPreston FosterPatricia EllisFrank JenksA detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
- DirectorOtis GarrettStarsNan GreyDonald WoodsJed ProutyCaesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from cyanogen gas, administered in some mysterious fashion. Harry Jones, head of the company, fires Butts for making the murder public. Kluck has made many enemies and there are numerous suspects, including Christina "Steenie" MacCorkle, who is in love with Butts; her brother Alexander; radio announcer Dave Chapman; Tony Lisotti, the janitor who had discovered that Kluck was making love to his daughter Maria; Kluck's physician, Doctor Leonard Sylvester; and Joe Carney, a racketeer who had been doing Kluck's dirty work. Butts pursues his investigation and his only clue is a deflated toy-advertising balloon he has found next to Kluck's body. Later, Butts discovers Tony's body in a broom closet and, nearby, finds another deflated balloon, a straw and a pin. He then calls all the suspects together...and solves the mystery.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsPreston FosterFrank JenksKay LinakerIn their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
- DirectorOtis GarrettStarsBruce CabotHelen MackJoan WoodburyIn the middle of an eye-surgery operation in a large hospital, the lights in the operating room go out and the chief surgeon is murdered. It is the job of Police-Detective Spencer to figure out who in the room had something to gain from his death.
- DirectorJoe MayStarsWilliam GarganIrene HerveyDorothy ArnoldA detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. The actor's body disappeared shortly after the crime, and his ghost is rumored to be haunting the theater.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsWarner BaxterLynn MerrickGloria DicksonThe Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of a young man with a reputation for using poison.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsWarner BaxterNina FochGeorge ZuccoA young woman wants The Crime Doctor to help her decipher her strange nightmares.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterJohn LitelDusty AndersonThe Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of an artist accused of murdering his model during one of his blackout spells.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsWarner BaxterHillary BrookeJerome CowanDr. Ordway investigates the death of man whose first two wives were murdered.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterAdele RobertsMartin KosleckIn the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterEllen DrewWilliam FrawleyThe Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsWarner BaxterNancy SaundersClem BevansIn the 8th film of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Robert Ordway is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains district of West Virginia when a typhoid epidemic breaks out. Three deaths occur with the first two being typhoid-caused but the death of the third person, Ward Beachey, is a case of poisoning. Orday learns that Beachey was the town Romeo with many enemies and that most of those had access to the poison. Doc Millerson, who has a suspicion who the guilty party is, receives a note in a woman's handwriting requesting a meeting at the river bank. He goes there and is killed in an ambush by a rifle shot. Following the note as a clue, Ordway visits the house of Ezra Minnich and traps Minnich's young daughter into confessing that her father made her write the note. Minnich confesses he had killed Beachey for trying to break up his home and Doc Millerson because he suspected him.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterMicheline CheirelRoger DannOn a lecture/vacation visit to Paris, Dr. Ordway drops in on his friend, the Prefecture of Police. He becomes involved in a case involving the stabbing of an old man. The man's son, not all that mentally stable, believes he killed his own father in a rage because his father disliked his new bride, the daughter of a cabaret knife-thrower. Investigating the case, Ordway finds that the business of the legal copying art masterworks may also be involved.
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsWarner BaxterStephen DunneLois MaxwellDr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsHelen TwelvetreesDonald CookBerton ChurchillDetective Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceHillary BrookeSherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneMatti RaninLeo JokelaInspector Palmu investigates the death of an old astronomer, whose body is found on Helsinki's Observatory Hill, but the investigation is complicated by the media's spreading of false information concerning the case.
- DirectorAlfred VohrerStarsJoachim FuchsbergerBrigitte GrothumElisabeth FlickenschildtInspector Wade hunts down The Shark, a criminal equipped with a wetsuit and a speargun.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsMargaret RutherfordRon MoodyCharles 'Bud' TingwellWhen Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsMargaret RutherfordStringer DavisRobert MorleyWhen a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Jane Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsMargaret RutherfordLionel JeffriesCharles 'Bud' TingwellAfter Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneElina PohjanpääMatti RaninA closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneMatti RaninLeo JokelaA rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta start an investigation into who has broken into the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap when Mrs. Skrof was sleeping.
- DirectorAllan DavisStarsBernard LeeDavid KnightFrancis De WolffAn unscrupulous businessman frames a rival for murder, then is himself found murdered in a locked room.
- DirectorGerard GlaisterStarsBernard LeeLyndon BrookFinlay CurrieThe police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsConrad NagelLeila HyamsMargaret WycherlyAlthough his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreStarsErnest TorrenceRoland YoungDorothy SebastianWhen a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHuguette DuflosKissa KouprineMaxime DesjardinsA professor's daughter is attacked in her sealed bedroom.Her fiance is suspected but a cub journalist finds the surprising culprit.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsBarbara KentJohn HollandDorothy ChristyAlvin Merle, a womanizing Broadway matinée idol, is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no possible other way into the room. Merle is having an affair with his leading lady, while his wife, actress Ethel Wynn, appearing in another play in a theater around the corner, is doing the same with Frank Murray, the stage manager on Merle's play. Newspaper reporter Jim Ryan is investigating the case and meets Jean Royce, a young actress who had been fired from the play while in rehearsals. Everybody, including Michael, the old actor now relegated to being just a stage-doorman, has a motive. The explanation for the murder lies within the script of the play.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJameson ThomasFlorence BrittonThomas E. JacksonA murder mystery evolves during a weekend at an exclusive mansion.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsAileen PringleJameson ThomasDorothy ChristyTony Blair, a producer of Broadway plays, is murdered on a California-bound passenger liner, and a series of events leads to an assumption that Claire Norvelle has committed the killing. Despite the fact that Blair was an obnoxious character, murder is murder and Claire is accused of the crime. Complications arise when another murder occurs. The startling solution clears Barbara and provides a surprising explanation of the two murders.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsAileen PringleAlice WhiteHale HamiltonA murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsNatalie MoorheadRussell HoptonJ. Farrell MacDonaldHollywood star Irma Gladden piles up the haters as she goes along her merry way-until she's found dead in her car.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsBela LugosiDavid MannersAdrienne AmesMurder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsConway TearleNatalie MoorheadMarceline DayA beautiful blonde makes a career of seducing, then blackmailing, wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsLionel AtwillGloria StuartPaul LukasTwenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsShirley GreyCharles StarrettJ. Farrell MacDonaldA popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
- DirectorReginald DenhamStarsIan HunterAustin TrevorLilian OldlandWhen an actor is murdered at the BBC Inspector Gregory finds he has many suspects to choose from.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsDonald CookGenevieve TobinHardie AlbrightEight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsShirley GreyCharles StarrettClaude GillingwaterThe owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends, but the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
- DirectorClifford SanforthStarsBela LugosiJune CollyerHuntley GordonJames Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsRobert TaylorJean ParkerTed HealyTaylor is cast as Lt. Tom Randolph, one of several naval officers confined to his ship when a murder occurs. The victim was in the process of delivering the components for a new electrical fire-control device, thus everyone concerned is suspected of being a killer, or a foreign agent, or both.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsCharley GrapewinMary CarlisleArthur HohlAn eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, and his housekeeper. But complications and murder arise when two different women turn up, claiming to be the granddaughter.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsRussell HoptonLola LaneGeorge F. MarionWhile a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsJohn MiljanIrene WareIris AdrianA famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murder.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsPreston FosterMargaret CallahanAlan MowbrayA private detective is enlisted to find out who shot a dog and threatened its owner, but before long he's also involved in a kidnapping and murder plot.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayDouglass DumbrilleA woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsWallace FordBarbara PepperJoan WoodburyA mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsReginald DennyEvelyn BrentJack La RueWhen a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsLew AyresGail PatrickPaul KellySuspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photographer Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiance Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photographers were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroughly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Although evidence suggests Meg is guilty, Murdock returns to his apartment and pledges to help her. She drugs his drink, but in the middle of the night, someone breaks in, knocks her out, and ransacks Murdock's photography equipment. They awaken in the morning and Murdock finds a photo plate in the cap McGoogin gave him. It's a picture taken by one of the photographers from behind Redfield and probably shows the killer preparing to murder him. Girard arrives and tries to bribe Murdock. The cops arrive, with McGoogin, and McGoogin pockets the photo plate. Girard threatens Murdock and Meg, implying that he staged Meg's father's suicide; they have to get the photo plate back and try to clear Meg's name - and get out of his engagement to Hester. The story becomes more and more convoluted, with the shooting of McGoogin and then Meg, the arrival of the brother of the man Girard was on trial for killing, and Murdock's decision to confront Girard on his own terms.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsRobert YoungFlorence RiceFrank CravenRetired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsWallace FordMarian MarshSarah PaddenA wealthy woman has a murder mystery on her hands when her greedy relatives wind up dead after being invited to her home.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsLee PatrickRegis ToomeyJulie BishopMurder mystery with a nurse (Lee Patrick) moving into a mansion after an apparent suicide to care for the old mother. The mother is kind of spooky, but so is the butler, and the girlfriend, and the doctor, and... you get the point. After the insurance policy is found, the plot becomes more interesting.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsSidney BlackmerRick VallinByron FoulgerMembers of an opera company are being blackmailed by someone called the Black Panther.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsAnne GwynneDonald CookJohn LitelA party is thrown at a haunted mansion, people start to die, and a man who spent a night in the "blue room" disappears.
- DirectorCharles DavidStarsDeanna DurbinRalph BellamyDavid BruceIn New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsNoah Beery Jr.Lois CollierPaul KellyA black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsAlastair SimSally GrayTrevor HowardAfter the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder also dies, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsMark StevensJean KentGarry MarshDuring a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. The next day the pilot wakes up in a strange hotel room with blood on his suit, and can't remember how he got there. Then he discovers that the friend he fought with the night before has been murdered, and he is a prime suspect.
- DirectorWolf RillaStarsDennis PriceRona AndersonRonald HowardA woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsVan JohnsonVera MilesEmlyn WilliamsA British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsLaurence OlivierMichael CaineAlec CawthorneA man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsChristopher PlummerJames MasonDavid HemmingsSherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
- DirectorRian JohnsonStarsDaniel CraigChris EvansAna de ArmasA detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsTyrone PowerMarlene DietrichCharles LaughtonA veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsRay WalkerBerton ChurchillIrene WareA pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsAdele MaraWarren DouglasWilliam FrawleyA private detective finds himself with a perfect new secretary. But after a notorious gossip columnist turns up murdered, she may prove too good to be true.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsRobert YoungMadge EvansNat PendletonPop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Evans to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsEdward ArnoldRobert YoungConstance CummingsAfter a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night that nobody remembers anything that happened.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsFrances DrakeReginald DennyGail PatrickA public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsLeslie BanksGreta GyntIan McLeanWhen a star player drops dead during a charity football match between Arsenal and amateur side the Trojans, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyMaureen O'SullivanFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
- DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsRicardo CortezKaren MorleyAnita LouiseJenny Wren is found dead after threatening to blackmail some prominent men, and it's up to a detective to find out what happened to Jenny.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyJames StewartPrivate detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyVirginia GreyAn explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyBarry NelsonA jockey has been shot dead at the race track. Famous detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora happen to be on the scene and Lt. Abrahams asks for Nick's expert help.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyLucile WatsonNick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's choice of profession in particular and his lifestyle in general. With Nick's arrival however the towns folk, including several of the local criminal element, are convinced that he must be there on a case despite his protestations that he's just there for rest and relaxation. When someone is shot dead on his doorstep however, Nick finds himself working on a case whether he wants to or not.
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyKeenan WynnNick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them in to the police but then sets out to figure out the mystery.