Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941)

Встречают по фамилии, провожают по… Как иногда бывает полезно, когда среди знаменитостей находится твой однофамилец. Ширли Кэньон смогла в этом полностью убедиться, решив однажды в поисках лучшей жизни переехать в Чикаго, где в поисках работы забрела на одну из радиостанций. Там ее совершенно случайно по причине схожести фамилий спутали с известным психологом. Так неожиданно началась звездная карьера Доктора Ширли.

Ведущий актер радиотеатра Лари Эббот страдает одним недостатком — он ужасно боится грома и молнии, и это мешает ему нормально выступать в спектаклях ужаса. Один его дядя решил вылечить племянника по странной методике: избавить Лари от страха, как следует напугав его. Поскольку Лари собирался жениться, то его с невестой Вики Пирл пригласили на церемонию бракосочетания в родовой замок Эбботов. На свадьбу съехались все представители семейства со своими женами. С самого начала пребывания в замке Лари погружается в атмосферу таинственности и страха, которую умело создал дядя с помощью невесты Лари. Экстравагантные родственники, среди которых находится знаменитый фокусник, по мере сил помогают дурачить Лари. Однако в этой весёлой семейке оказывается и настоящий преступник.

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.

A late night radio host is trapped inside the station by a violent storm after being bitten by a rabid bat.

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.

В прекрасном, затерянном между гор, южном городке Санта Барбара, штат Калифорния, всегда происходит что-нибудь интересное. На этот раз вы узнаете историю о любви тинейджеров из местной гимназии. Девушка подросток Джуди Фостер — солистка школьного оркестра. Она с друзьями старательно репетируют песни для танцевального вечера, но ее манера пения и поведения на сцене не нравится ее старшей подруге и руководительнице бала Кэрол Прингл, котораяназывает исполнение «слишком юным» и беспечным. Приходит день праздника и выясняется, что парень по имени Оджи — постоянный кавалер Джуди, не будет сопровождать её на выпускной бал. Расстроенная этим ужасным обстоятельством девушка просит владельца популярного в городе кафе отпустить его двадцатилетнего племянника Стивена Эндрюса с ней в качестве партнера для танцев.

When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.

The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.

Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack. There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things.

A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.

A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.

The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.