Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
Several 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.
Top billed cast
Ralph BellamyEllery Queen
Margaret LindsayNikki Porter
Charley GrapewinInsp. Queen
Spring ByingtonCarlotta Emerson
H.B. WarnerRay Jardin
James BurkeSgt. Velie
Douglass DumbrilleJohn Matthews
John BealWalter Matthews
Linda HayesMarian Jardin
Sidney BlackmerAnthony Rhodes
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