A young Betty Grable replaces Dorothy Lee as the love interest for Bert in this 1935 Wheeler-Woolsey mystery-comedy. In this one, the boys get mixed up in the murder of a music executive who was trying to put the moves on his secretary (Grable). There are plenty of other suspects, of course, and mutual misunderstandings …
The Thin Man Goes Home (MGM, 1945)
For the first time since their marriage, Nick and Nora Charles head to Nick’s hometown to visit with his parents for a birthday vacation. Nick still chafes at his father’s disapproval of his decision to forgo medicine as a career, and Nora believes that a crime right there in Sycamore Springs will give Nick a …
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Until Temptation Do Us Part, by Carter Brown
Easily my favorite mysteries by Carter Brown are those starring Lieutenant Al Wheeler, “temporarily” attached to the office of Sheriff Lavers. In Until Temptation Do Us Part, as so often happens, Wheeler is summoned in the middle of the night to the scene of a murder. The victim is a local real estate magnate at …
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The Dead Are Alive! (1972)
Alex Cord is a recovering alcoholic archaeologist excavating Etruscan tombs when a killer begins attacking people in some way tied to the dig, or to the family of an eccentric composer (John Marley) whose household includes the archaeologist’s former lover (Samantha Eggar). The movie is rather slow going in the middle, with weird behavior piled …