Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.

Edmund Lowe
as Harwood

Constance Cummings
as Caryl Fenton

Thomy Bourdelle
as Paul Turbé

Henry Oscar
as Axel Hoyt

Felix Aylmer
as Sir Charles Webber

O.B. Clarence
as Registrar

Allan Jeayes
as Wagner

Anthony Holles
as Reception Clerk

David Horne
as Hotel Manager

Edwin Laurence
as Guildhall Guide
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This is quite a clever little mystery, well held together by Edmund Lowe and Constance Cummings. The former is a cocky PI ("Harwood") who meets ("Miss Fenton") who works for an insurance company. They must get to the bottom of some rather ingenious murders. Each time, an heavily insured body is foun...