Screenplay: S.S. Van Dine

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Mary Astor · Eugene Pallette · Ralph Morgan

Synopsis Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making...

Direction Malcolm St. Clair · Frank Tuttle

Cast William Powell · Louise Brooks · Jean Arthur · James Hall

Direction William Clemens

Cast James Stephenson · Margot Stevenson · Henry O'Neill · Edward Brophy

Synopsis Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes...

Direction David Burton · Nick Grinde

Cast Basil Rathbone · Leila Hyams · Roland Young · Alec B. Francis

Synopsis The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was...

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warren William · Margaret Lindsay · Lyle Talbot · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis The Stann family gives a small party prior to daughter Bernice's marriage to socialite Monty, but all of the guests seem to be against the match.

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Grant Richards · Roscoe Karns · Helen Burgess · Ruth Coleman

Synopsis Philo Vance takes a hand when, one evening, a daughter of the Greene family is shot to death and another one is wounded. The family comprises two sons and three daughters (the youngest, Ada, is adopted) under the rule of...

Direction Basil Wrangell

Cast Alan Curtis · Vivian Austin · Frank Jenks · Tala Birell

Synopsis Private Detective Philo Vance (Alan Curtis) gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States. The first victim is the smuggler, Jeffrey Connor (Dan Seymour),...

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Gracie Allen · Warren William · Ellen Drew · Kent Taylor

Synopsis The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a nightclub that night, Gracie inadvertently...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Henry Wilcoxon · Betty Furness · Sidney Blackmer · Evelyn Brent

Synopsis A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Edmund Lowe · Virginia Bruce · Benita Hume · Douglas Walton

Synopsis Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides but Vance suspects hypnosis and foul play.

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast William Powell · William Boyd · Eugene Pallette · Paul Lukas

Synopsis A murder takes place virtually in front of Philo Vance's eyes which, for all intents and purposes, should mean that even Sergeant Heath could solve it and Philo can go back home. Not quite, and neither can Philo Vance for...

Direction William Beaudine

Cast William Wright · Vivian Austin · Leon Belasco · Clara Blandick

Synopsis Playboy Larry Blendon (Damian O'Flynn) introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon (Clara Blandick) to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux (Ramsay Ames). Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast William Powell · Florence Eldridge · Ulrich Haupt · Jean Arthur

Synopsis At the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year, they start being mysteriously murdered one...

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Paul Lukas · Alison Skipworth · Donald Cook · Rosalind Russell

Synopsis When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful...