A scheduled meeting with a wealthy old man leads to the doctor's second case when he finds out from the housekeeper that the man he's meeting has just been murdered. There's the whole lineup of a group of suspicious family members and servants, and Warner Baxter proves that he's a lot smarter than detective Barton MacLane, standing in for frazzled dumb cops Fred Kelsey, Donald MacBride and Edgar Kennedy who usually play that role. The housekeeper, cook, younger wife and Baxter's client (a young Lloyd Bridges) are all suspects, and one of them is leading Baxter on a feather brained wild goose chase.
A very intelligent but frequently complex mystery, giving a great cast lots of fun bits to play as everybody gets their moment. Virginia Brissac, Rose Hobart, Reginald Denny and Jerome Cowan each get the opportunity to chew the scenery, one of them getting a great disguise and different demeanor to play two different kinds of people, one of them much older. Don't try to outguess the crime doctor. He keeps the viewer guessing right up to the end, giving plenty of clues, yet never the one that makes it too easy, indicating a good writer aided by above average sets and photography for a Columbia programmer. If this was any more clever, they would have had Columbia's lady with the torch a suspect as well!
A very intelligent but frequently complex mystery, giving a great cast lots of fun bits to play as everybody gets their moment. Virginia Brissac, Rose Hobart, Reginald Denny and Jerome Cowan each get the opportunity to chew the scenery, one of them getting a great disguise and different demeanor to play two different kinds of people, one of them much older. Don't try to outguess the crime doctor. He keeps the viewer guessing right up to the end, giving plenty of clues, yet never the one that makes it too easy, indicating a good writer aided by above average sets and photography for a Columbia programmer. If this was any more clever, they would have had Columbia's lady with the torch a suspect as well!