Arthur Hohl

The sleuths investigate a series of grisly murders in a small Canadian village called La Mort Rouge during the Second World War. The villagers believe the deaths are the work of a phantom, according to an old legend, and they see things which support this. Holmes and Watson have to prove otherwise, and stop the killer.

Academy Award winners James Cagney and Bette Davis star as a less-than-scrupulous private detective and the woman he loves--who has just left him for an even less scrupulous employer. Jimmy Corrigan (Gagney) is jealous when his operative and sweatheart, Joan Martin (Davis), goes to work for Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart) because Wallingham seems to have much more class than Corrigan. But Co...

Murder mystery in which renowned detective Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of apparent suicides that have taken place in peculiar circumstances. He soon deduces that they are in fact murders committed by a woman. Disguised as an Indian, he uncovers a world of illicit gambling and insurance scams, and finds himself a target of the evil murderer.