"He Finds His Greatest Adventure With A Death-Dealing Adventuress!"
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
Alan Curtis
Philo Vance
Vivian Austin
Laurian March (as Terry Austin)
Frank Jenks
Ernie Clark
Tala Birell
Tina Cromwell
Gavin Gordon
Oliver Tennant
Cliff Clark
Inspector Walsh
James Burke
Lt. Burke
Toni Todd
Geegee Desmond
Francis Pierlot
Roberts
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who was involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
เป็นเรื่องราวของนายตำรวจแห่งบอสตัน โทมัส คราเว่น (เมล กิ๊บสัน) ที่นอกจากงานแล้ว ลูกสาวคือสิ่งสำคัญที่สุดในชีวิต แต่ในคืนแรกหลังการกลับมาจากฝึกงานของลูกสาว เอ็มม่า(โบจานา โนวาโควิค) เธอก็ถูกสังหารต่อหน้าต่อตาเขา ความเสียใจและความรู้สึกผิด ทำให้เขาเริ่มสืบสวนเรื่องนี้หลังตำรวจสรุปว่าเป็นการยิงผิดตัว แต่เมื่อเขาสืบค้นไปเรื่อยๆ ก็ยิ่งพบความลับที่เขาไม่เคยรู้เกี่ยวกับลูกสาว และบริษัทค้าอาวุธข้ามชาติกับรัฐบาล ยิ่งค้นเข้าไปเท่าไหร่ เขาก็ยิ่งพบอันตรายมากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ แต่งานนี้มีเพียงสิ่งเดียวที่เขาสนใจ นั่นคือการชำระหนี้แค้นให้กับการตายของลูกสาวอันเป็นที่รัก
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
1934. Private detective Miranda Green investigates a murder perpetrated in the British Embassy in Cairo, where a top secret document was stolen, risking to jeopardize both Buckingham Palace and the peace of the world. All those present in this closed place are suspected: the American photographer, the English student, the American actress, the Egyptian security guard, the ambassador interpreter, the Egyptian gardener and - why not? — the Ambassador himself. But who would have expected that a small group of Nazis would be behind a plot, risking to jeopardize both Buckingham Palace and the peace of the world?
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.
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.