Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention. For a while they get misled by red herrings.
Edmund Lowe plays a know-it-all, dry-witted crime author and Victor Mclagen a dopey house detective - of course, he lacks in the brain department and Lowe is the opposite. I love their war of words and the put downs. Lowe's comeback lines were delivered smoothly. The mystery is engaging, there's a certain energy in the plot enough twists and turns to keep you watching. There's a good line of suspects, a neat ending, if albeit a little too slapdash as if they ran out of celluloid.
Edmund Lowe plays a know-it-all, dry-witted crime author and Victor Mclagen a dopey house detective - of course, he lacks in the brain department and Lowe is the opposite. I love their war of words and the put downs. Lowe's comeback lines were delivered smoothly. The mystery is engaging, there's a certain energy in the plot enough twists and turns to keep you watching. There's a good line of suspects, a neat ending, if albeit a little too slapdash as if they ran out of celluloid.