Home Sweet Homicide

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.

Cast

Peggy Ann Garner

as Dinah Carstairs

Randolph Scott

as Lt. Bill Smith

Lynn Bari

as Marian Carstairs

Dean Stockwell

as Archie Carstairs

Connie Marshall

as April Carstairs

James Gleason

as Sgt. O'Hare

Anabel Shaw

as Polly Walker

Barbara Whiting

as Jo-Ella Holbrook

Shepperd Strudwick

as Mr. Wallace Sanford

Marietta Canty

as Cherrington Housekeeper

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