Joan Wiswell (Irene Rich), Ted Workman (Clive Brooks) and wholesome Helen Ripley (June Marlowe) are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own , murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas (Gayne Whitman)..


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