Crime

In San Francisco’s Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, ...

A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne ...

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. ...

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called “the Swede”. When the killers find the Swede, he’s expecting them and ...

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named “The Creeper” from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho ...

A nightclub singer can’t choose between a charismatic small-time gangster and an honest newspaperman.

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.

A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent ...

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his ...

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on ...

A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney’s girlfriend ...

A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current ...

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck’s involvement with Eddie’s fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

A falsely convicted man’s wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the ...

A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him ...