Category: Mystery

June 18, 2019 / Mystery

The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income, is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real estate agent and offers to get her into a law firm of a friend of his. Placed in the office of Roberts, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade.

May 13, 2019 / Mystery

While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth takes his wife, Iris, to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.

March 30, 2019 / Mystery

Wisecracking female private eye Belinda Prentice has to put in a lot of overtime when her first client is murdered. Following the clues to an apartment house chock-full of suspicious characters, Belinda predicts-correctly, as it turns out–that there’ll be several more killings unless she can pinpoint the guilty party and ascertain his or her motives. Meanwhile, her police-inspector father wishes aloud that Belinda would give up the p.i. business and settle down with a nice young fellow.

March 3, 2019 / Film Noir

A detective’s search for a carnival mind reader’s missing sister is complicated by a string of mysterious murders.

February 26, 2019 / Mystery

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.

February 23, 2019 / Mystery

Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a professional gambler and card shark. Nashe agrees to fund the penniless Pozzi in a game of poker against two eccentric millionaires, Flower and Stone, in an attempt to regain some of his spent fortune. This film is an almost exact translation of the novel by Paul Auster. 

February 23, 2019 / Mystery

This third entry in Columbia’s “Inspector Trent” series is cleverly (and economically) set in a movie studio. A malevolent leading lady is murdered while filming a scene, whereupon the nervous studio head calls in Inspector Trent. Since everybody on the lot despised the victim, there’s a surplus of suspects.

February 22, 2019 / Mystery