Novel
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
Story
Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
Writer
El veterano marino Johnny Christopher conoce a Evelyn Smith en la playa y se siente inmediatamente atraído ella. El nuevo trabajo de Evelyn, como secretaria de un senador estadounidense en California, pronto trae intrigas y problemas inesperados para ella y para Johnny. Las maquinaciones de un siniestro grupo de espías nazis conducen a misterios e identidades equivocadas. Los dos pronto se ven incriminados en un asesinato.
Screenplay
An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.
Story
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Story
El Halcón es inculpado por el asesinato de un banquero y el robo de bonos de guerra. Escapa a las montañas, donde se esconde en una cabaña rústica. Desde allí descubre una operación de bonos de guerra falsos.
Screenplay
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
Screenplay
Gay Lawrence (George Sanders) es un detective aficionado, elegante y frío, conocido tan solo como “El Halcón”. Se entera de que su hermano Tom (Tom Conway) ha sido asesinado a bordo de un barco procedente de Sudamérica. “El Halcón” comienza a investigar a los posibles asesinos antes de descubrir que su hermano aún sigue vivo. Su búsqueda lo lleva por turbias aguas repletas de espías, chantajistas y criminales. “El Halcón” persigue a los delincuentes y debe proteger a un diplomático para evitar que atenten contra su vida. Todas las investigaciones le conducen a una famosa revista de moda y a enfrentarse con una red de espías Nazis.
Story
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
Screenplay
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
Story
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
Screenplay
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Story
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Screenplay
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Screenplay
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Screenplay
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's story.
Screenplay
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Screenplay
Unos detectives intentan descubrir quién mató a un perro famoso en el mundo del espectáculo.
Screenplay
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
Screenplay
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Screenplay
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Screenplay
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Story
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Story
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Original Story
La maestra Hildegarde Withers y el policía Oscar Piper, tratarán de averiguar la verdad sobre la aparición del cadáver de un millonario asesinado en su mansión. Las sospechas recaen en una joven pareja de enamorados, antiguos alumnos de la profesora Withers.
Screenplay
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
Novel
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Novel
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Novel
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.