amateur sleuth

15 movies and shows

Fast and Furious

Fri, 06 Oct 1939

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.

Jongole Mitin Mashi

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

Jongole Mitin Mashi is based on a story of anti-poaching of elephants and depicts the fight of Mitin against the enemies of the forest. Sequel to the 2019 detective thriller Mitin Mashi.

Fast and Loose

Fri, 17 Feb 1939

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

The Female Instinct

Mon, 18 Dec 1972

A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. Pilot to TV series The Snoop Sisters.

The Second Woman

Fri, 07 Jul 1950

In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.

The Shadow in the North

Sat, 15 Sep 2007

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.

The Ruby in the Smoke

Wed, 27 Dec 2006

Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father just before he drowned in the South China Seas. But unfortunately, Sally has no idea what the words The Seven Blessings mean. Before long, she is drawn into a mystery filled with opium, secrets from her own past and, at the heart of it all, the Ruby of Agrapur.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Fri, 24 Apr 1936

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

Murder on a Bridle Path

Fri, 17 Apr 1936

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.

Murder on the Blackboard

Fri, 15 Jun 1934

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.

A Very Missing Person

Sat, 04 Mar 1972

An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

Another Man's Poison

Tue, 20 Nov 1951

Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.