The eccentric Aunt Cassie Denham is the defendant in a sanity trial brought against her by her nephew Garson Denham. The truth is that Aunt Cassie is rich and owner of Greylock Estate in the mountains of Virginia. And her family want her out of the way so they can own her wealth but Judge Moore throws the case out of court through lack of evidence. After the trial all the family members receive a sinister invitation to gather together at Greylock Manor on a Friday at the stroke of midnight. It seems that Cassie wants them all close to her for a period so she can decide which one among them will be her heir.
One of the family gets stabbed in the library while reading a book entitled 'The Fine Art Of Murder.' Sheriff Boggs is called in to investigate and is joined by a columnist for the New York Evening Register. The columnist is played by Wallace Ford whose best moment for me is when he finds himself talking to a miniature copy of Rodin's The Thinker in his room. A hand comes from behind an art picture panel when he's not looking and replaces the statuette with a note telling him to leave Greylock. Greylock Manor is filled with secret passageways that had once been used by spies in a past conflict.
A good character to look out for is Aunt Cassie's neighbor Trowbridge Montrose who can be seen in his garden putting poison in the rose spray liquid. He roams his garden at night and snoops through the windows of Greylock Manor giving people the shivers. The actors Gavin Gordon and Minerva Urecal make a good husband wife team who are after Aunt Cassie's money. There are three murders and corpses that keep disappearing in this entertaining mystery.
One of the family gets stabbed in the library while reading a book entitled 'The Fine Art Of Murder.' Sheriff Boggs is called in to investigate and is joined by a columnist for the New York Evening Register. The columnist is played by Wallace Ford whose best moment for me is when he finds himself talking to a miniature copy of Rodin's The Thinker in his room. A hand comes from behind an art picture panel when he's not looking and replaces the statuette with a note telling him to leave Greylock. Greylock Manor is filled with secret passageways that had once been used by spies in a past conflict.
A good character to look out for is Aunt Cassie's neighbor Trowbridge Montrose who can be seen in his garden putting poison in the rose spray liquid. He roams his garden at night and snoops through the windows of Greylock Manor giving people the shivers. The actors Gavin Gordon and Minerva Urecal make a good husband wife team who are after Aunt Cassie's money. There are three murders and corpses that keep disappearing in this entertaining mystery.