Not The Thin Man
Films with wise cracking couples solving murders , a la Nick and Nora .
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- DirectorStephen RobertsStarsWilliam PowellGinger RogersPaul KellyWhen a dancer disappears from a theater, her former lover asks lawyer Clay Dalzell to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.William Powell and Ginger Rogers
- DirectorStephen RobertsStarsWilliam PowellJean ArthurJames GleasonA wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband's non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.William Powell and Jean Arthur
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsEdward ArnoldRobert YoungConstance CummingsAfter a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night that nobody remembers anything that happened.Robert Young and Constance Cummings
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsMelvyn DouglasFlorence RiceClaire DoddA husband-and-wife team who deal in rare books and are skillful at recovering stolen volumes for insurance companies, become involved in the murder of a fence.Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsRobert MontgomeryRosalind RussellReginald OwenRare booksellers Joel and Garda Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library.Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsFranchot ToneAnn SothernRuth HusseyRare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsTom NealPamela BlakeAllen JenkinsSusan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.Tom Neal and Pamela Blake
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsTom NealPamela BlakeAllen JenkinsJewel thieves, operating under the guises of a Duke and a Duchess, hire the Ace Detective Agency, run by Russ Ashton, to baby sit an infant they have kidnapped and are using as a blind. A rival gang of thieves dope the detective sitter, Harvard Quinlan, and make off with a stolen and valuable diamond.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsLoretta YoungBrian AherneJeff DonnellA mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings.Brian Aherne and Loretta Young
- DirectorRobert B. SinclairStarsGracie AllenWilliam Post Jr.Paul KellyJerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen) return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. That soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of the liquor closet. The corpse is identified as Stanley Brent, the estranged husband of Carol Brent (Rose Hobart), a friend of Pam's. As the clues are unearthed, it appears that some member of the North's social circle, who knew they would be away, gained entrance to their apartment, asked Brent to come there and murdered him. Pam tries to establish alibis for all of her friends, and in doing so inadvertently establishes who killed Brent.William Post Jr and Gracie Allen
- DirectorArthur B. WoodsRichard ThorpeStarsRobert MontgomeryConstance CummingsLeslie BanksA dead body is discovered in the newly-purchased home of a gentleman sleuth and his mystery-novelist bride.Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsRalph BellamyMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinFamed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen and Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter .
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsRalph BellamyMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinJewlery smuggled into the United States from China.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsRalph BellamyMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinSeveral days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsRalph BellamyMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinThe benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsWilliam GarganMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinTwo mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.William Gargan takes over as Ellery Queen .
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsWilliam GarganMargaret LindsayJohn LitelDetective Ellery Queen tries to find a missing man, and gets embroiled in a case of murder and embezzlement.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsWilliam GarganMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinDetective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battling German spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsJoan BlondellMelvyn DouglasMary AstorAn investigator for the district attorney and his amateur-sleuth wife compete to solve a murder mystery.Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsMelvyn DouglasVirginia BruceMargaret LindsayBill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsBarry K. BarnesValerie HobsonAlastair SimJohn Brown, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when he turns King's Evidence on the other members. He refuses to give reporter Simon Drake an interview, as Simon thinks he will probably be killed by his associates, but Simon makes note of his address. Simon is fired by his city editor, Macgregor, for failing to cover another assignment and the editor says he would not believe Brown's murder if reported by Simon even if it happened. Simon returns home and is persuaded by his wife Pat to have a drink or two. The tipsy Simon, as a joke, telephones Macgregor and tells him that Brown has just been murdered, and the excited Macgregor hangs up before Simon can explain it is just a joke. But Brown has really been murdered and Inspector Holly learns from Macgregor that Simon had telephoned him with the news at 3:10 A.M., but knows that Brown was not murdered until 4:35 A.M. The Inspector also finds a recently fired revolver in Simon's flat and arrests him. Pat and a garage mechanic manage to provide an alibi for Simon at the time of the murder and he is released. But the next morning, Brown's son is also found murdered in Simon's flat. Then Macgregor is shot, non-fatally, while in Simon's presence. Simon is not only reporting news, he appears to the police to be the one also making it.Barry K. Barnes and Valerie Hobson
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGracie AllenWarren WilliamEllen DrewThe zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a nightclub that night, Gracie inadvertently links Bill to the murder of a thug after finding the dead body and Bill's cigarette case at the scene of the crime. While being questioned at the club, she meets Vance who's investigating the homicide. After Gracie's bungled attempts to solve the case, Vance decides it might be easier to have her working with him. Despite Gracie's "help," the two eventually find the real killer.Warren William and Gracie Allen
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJean ArthurJoel McCreaReginald OwenA reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsPat O'BrienGeorge MurphyCarole LandisA lawyer and two newlyweds get mixed up in mock mystery at a resort.
- DirectorCharles DavidStarsDeanna DurbinRalph BellamyDavid BruceIn New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.