- Inspector Murdoch investigates shooting of vaudeville comedian Bert Grady who is found dead on the street, shot three times in the chest. Grady had just finished his performance at the Bradley theatre, with Constables Crabtree and Higgins in the audience. The shooting looks like - or was made to look like - a robbery. He was not well-liked by others in the show, including a young juggler by the name of W.C. Fields and Ed Ward, Grady's one time comedic partner who is now far less popular on his own. The police find Grady's hotel room ransacked and suspect someone may have been out to steal his jokes. Would-be comedians Crabtree and Higgins join the show undercover and quickly identify Grady's mistress, Eleanor Moffat, wife of the show's manager, Lewis Moffat who became aware of their affair a week ago. A buried body gives them the clue to solving the crime.—garykmcd
- Crabtree and Higgings great enjoy the vaudeville, so are shocked afterward to learn the standard public prize winner, monologue humorist comedian Bert Grady, whim the offered in vain their own cop jokes, was fatally shot in a poor quarter street. Murdoch fears it wasn't a robbery, so goes through the heater staff and vaudeville competitors, including his former partner Ed Ward, and new public's favorite W.C. Fields, while Crabtree and Higgins go undercover as newly recruited artists, parodying Murdoch and Brackenreid, who enjoy it all less then Julia but Crabtree's girl not at all, regardless of his stage freight debacle debut. Grady had an affair with manager Lewis Moffat's adulterous wife Eleanor and Bert's notebooks full of jokes were apparently stolen from the tacky hotel room where they met. Yet an inconspicuous clue to an older crime proves crucial.—KGF Vissers
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