Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Ralph Bellamy	...	Ellery Queen
	Margaret Lindsay	...	Nikki Porter
	Charley Grapewin	...	Insp. Queen
	James Burke	...	Sgt. Velle
	Michael Whalen	...	Dr. James Rogers
	Marsha Hunt	...	Barbara Braun
	Fred Niblo	...	John Braun
	Charles Lane	...	Dr. Prouty
	Ann Shoemaker	...	Lydia Braun
	Marion Martin	...	Cornelia
	Douglas Fowley	...	Rocky Taylor
	Morgan Wallace	...	Zachary
	Byron Foulger	...	Amos
	Katherine DeMille	...	Valerie Norris

Storyline

The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man. Elley finds the body in a closet... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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