Vic Armstrong arrives at his Uncle Judge Armstrong’s home just in time to answer the telephone. Unknown to him, his uncle has just been murdered and the culprit is right there in the room with him! Phyllis Powers, on the other end of the line, recognizes Vic’s voice, but just then Vic is knocked unconscious […]
Something secret is going on. You may or may not be in on it. The main narrative sure isn't. Spoooooky.
The Ghost Camera - 1933
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes an amateur sleuth after developing the film, and goes in search of the woman captured […]
Phantom Of Chinatown - 1940
Dr. John Benton is murdered while giving a lecture about a recent archaeological dig where he uncovered an ancient Chinese scroll. Detective James Lee Wong (this time played by Keye Luke) is on the scene to find the killer and solve the mystery of why the scroll is worth killing over. I think I read […]
Man in the Attic - 1953
After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Mr. Wong, Detective - 1938
This is the second in a series of movies that exist in a strange subset of Mystery / Detective movies where the detective is of Oriental decent. You know, because people from the East have superior and almost mystic deductive qualities, perfectly suiting them to work as detectives for crowded cities in the USA. Anyway, […]
Mr. Wong In Chinatown - 1939
A woman seeking help from detective James Wong is killed (Like the two other movies so far, people need to stay away from Mr. Wong!) with a poison dart before she has a chance to explain anything to Mr. Wong. As she dies she has just enough time to scribble “Captain J”
The Bat - 1959
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a large house with an appropriately sordid history. In the recent past it was the scene of some gruesome murders by a strange and violent killer known as “The Bat”. At the same time Cornelia is renting the house, the owner of the house has embezzled a million […]
The Limping Man - 1953
An American, Frank Pryor, comes to visit London after Word War II to look up an old sweetheart of his that lives there. While coming off the flight, a man he’s standing next is slain by a rifle in the hands of an unknown assassin with a limp. Later, while with his old lover Pauline French, […]
Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour - 1931
Ronald Adair, a successful gambling cheat and bureaucrat, is called to a meeting with The Sleeping Cardinal, a picture Professor Moriarty uses to disguise his identity. At the meeting Ronald is told he will be exposed and disgraced if he doesn’t take up with a crew of criminals doing a counterfeit money scam. Ronald is blackmailed […]