A crime novelist becomes embroiled in a real-life murder – one in which he's the prime suspect – in this nourish spin on "locker room" mystery cliches.
Jeffrey Andrews (Chester Morris, on hiatus from the BOSTON BLACKIE series) is at a career impasse: His contract with long-time publisher Henry Small (William Forrest) is so one-sided that he's perpetually broke. Determined to get himself a better deal, he fortifies himself several stiff drinks and pushes his way into Small's office. Small throws Andrews out before he can pitch his newest idea, a locked-room mystery he's sure will be a bestseller, so he repairs to the downstairs bar and finds a rapt audience ...
Released:
1947
Rated:
n/a
Length:
73 mins