A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942)

Adventure Crime Mystery

Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.

Updated May 21 2020

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1942-01-29

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Runtime: 67 mins Rating: 5.5 Tag Line: Fiction And Radio's Foremost Mystery Buster Tackles His Most Baffling Case

Cast

Charley Grapewin

Insp. Queen

James Burke

Bartender (uncredited)

Margaret Lindsay

Nikki Porter

Charles Lane

Coroner

Andrew Tombes

Bates

Kay Linaker

Margo Rogers

Claire Du Brey

Housekeeper

Edward Norris

Stewart Cole