Promising, but ultimately disappointing, village-set Agatha Christie-style murder mystery with Dennis Price in the role of the amateur sleuth trying to uncover clues that will spare his cousin from imminent execution for the murder of her husband. Price's investigations not only meet with no objections from the geriatric local bobby - who actively encourages him to nose about - he is also assisted by doctors who divulge confidential patient information to this complete stranger, and villagers with long-hidden dark secrets who readily confess them to him under the slightest duress of his urbane questions. We even get the final Poirot-style gathering of the suspects in the living room, in which he unmasks the killer, having uncovered evidence that the original police inquiry bafflingly failed to find. Afterwards, Price declares his love for a woman he has known for three days, and it all ends happily ever after. Standard fare for its day, and watchable if you overlook the implausibility of it all.
Review of Noose for a Lady
