Review of How to Be a Detective

This was a partly amusing short from Robert Benchley about the tips on being a detective. First, he asks an artist to draw a perfect criminal-which after giving him three photographs of other jailbirds, ends up looking like him! Then, he is called to investigate a criminal. He ends up tied up! He then tries to get a criminal's confession, which he then starts confessing to HIM! And finally, Benchley handcuffs the perpetrator to jail. Guess who ends up behind bars? The part that I found most amusing was when he described one of the criminals that was displayed on a board and said that he "set a fire in his house while he himself was in it"! While not laugh-out-loud hilarious, How to Be a Detective had some moments.