Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime 1941

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.

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The cast

Ralph Bellamy Ellery Queen

Margaret Lindsay Nikki Porter

Charley Grapewin Insp. Queen

Spring Byington Carlotta Emerson

H.B. Warner Ray Jardin

James Burke Sgt. Velie

Douglass Dumbrille John Matthews

John Beal Walter Matthews

Linda Hayes Marian Jardin

Sidney Blackmer Anthony Rhodes

Walter Kingsford Henry (Jardin butler)

Honorable Wu Lee (Matthews butler)

Charles Lane Dr. Prouty (coroner)

Charles Halton Rufus Smith (auctioneer)

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