Opened by Mistake

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.