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"Secret murder... Sinister mission"
Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place.
14 Cast Members
Alan Curtis
Philo Vance
Sheila Ryan
Mona Bannister
Tala Birell
Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips
Frank Jenks
Ernie Clark
James Bell
Sheriff Harry Madison
Frank Fenton
Paul Morgan
Paul Maxey
Martin Jamison
Kenneth Farrell
Joe, the photographer
Toni Todd
Louise Roberts aka Mrs. Paul Morgan
David Leonard
Carl Wilson (uncredited)
William Newell
Deputy (uncredited)
Tom Quinn
Haddon Phillips (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Ship's Purser (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
Thaddius Carter (uncredited)
