A drunken waiter called Tickler hired for a private party thrown for an artist and his fiancée Mary is found shot dead after the party.
Mary's curmudgeonly but wealthy uncle Harvey Lane (Finlay Currie) is also killed later on.
Superintendent Meredith (Bernard Lee) just knows there is a link between the two deaths.
Harvey's butler Binny (Patrick Cargill) wants to help out the police as he always wanted to be a detective.
Like other Edgar Wallace mysteries, there is skullduggery afoot. Harvey Lane was targetted but Tickler is more harder to fathom.
It is a bland affair with too many familiar ingredients. Harvey disapproved of Mary's intended and threatened to cut her off if she married him.
Binny was a butler who maybe just knew too much about his boss.
It takes a while to get going and Meredith is literally stumbling around in the dark at one point.
There is comedy from a hapless police constable but it does not take much to figure out who the culprit could be.
Mary's curmudgeonly but wealthy uncle Harvey Lane (Finlay Currie) is also killed later on.
Superintendent Meredith (Bernard Lee) just knows there is a link between the two deaths.
Harvey's butler Binny (Patrick Cargill) wants to help out the police as he always wanted to be a detective.
Like other Edgar Wallace mysteries, there is skullduggery afoot. Harvey Lane was targetted but Tickler is more harder to fathom.
It is a bland affair with too many familiar ingredients. Harvey disapproved of Mary's intended and threatened to cut her off if she married him.
Binny was a butler who maybe just knew too much about his boss.
It takes a while to get going and Meredith is literally stumbling around in the dark at one point.
There is comedy from a hapless police constable but it does not take much to figure out who the culprit could be.
