Murder Is My Business
TWO DAZZLING DARLINGS SLUG IT OUT... and MIKE'S caught in the middle again!
1946 · 1h 4m · Passed Action, Crime, Mystery
Overview
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
Director and cast
- Hugh Beaumont as Michael Shayne
- Cheryl Walker as Phyllis Hamilton
- Lyle Talbot as Buell Renslow
- George Meeker as Carl Meldrum
- Pierre Watkin as Arnold Ramsey
- Richard Keene as Tim Rourke
- David Reed as Ernest Ramsey
- Carol Andrews as Mona Tabor
- Julia McMillan as Dorothy Ramsey
- Helene Heigh as Eleanor Ramsey
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