Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Is it worth your time? If you like those old black-and-white mysteries where everyone talks fast and wears fancy suits, yeah, this is a fun hour. If you get annoyed by people making impossibly bad choices just to keep a plot moving, you might roll your eyes until they hurt. It’s light, it’s snappy, and it’s very much a...
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"Is it worth your time? If you like those old black-and-white mysteries where everyone talks fast and wears fancy suits, yeah, this is a fun hour. If you get annoyed by people making impossibly bad choices just to keep a plot moving, you might roll your eyes until they hurt. It’s light, it’s snappy, and it’s very much a product of its time. Foxhall Ridgeway is our guy. He shows up from the West, fresh off the boat or train or whatever, and lands in a murder plot before he can even unpack his soc..."
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Edward Childs Carpenter, Frank Davis, Walter C. Hackett
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