A "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his mountain lodge is framed with a satire of Hollywood as the writer of the story comically tries to get the script read and accepted by a studio.
William Desmond
The Author / Horace Lee
Robert McKim
Donald Greene
J. Barney Sherry
Richard Deering
Margaret Thompson
Evelyn Deering
Joseph J. Dowling
The Butler
Jerome Storm
Butler's Son
Louis Durham
Joe
J. Frank Burke
The Specialist
Reginald Barker
Himself
C. Gardner Sullivan
The Late Show
1977
Over Your Dead Body
2026
A Shot in the Dark
1964
Sew Torn
2025
The Thursday Murder Club
Another Thin Man
1939
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
Sherlock Jr.
1924
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
WHAT DID JACK DO?
2017
Nancy Drew
2007
Song of the Thin Man
1947
The Sheep Detectives
The Cheap Detective
1978
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
Black Angel
1946
The Fireman
1916
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993
Foul Play