Olin Howland credited as playing...
Chief of Police Jonathan Meek
- Chief Jonathan Meek: First case I ever covered where they had the butler show you the body.
- Phillips, the Butler: Follow me.
- Chief Jonathan Meek: [awed by the size of the house] If I owned this, I'd subdivide it.
- Coroner Tim Larson: What a beautiful funeral parlor this would make!
- Chief Jonathan Meek: Make a better courthouse.
- Chief Jonathan Meek: [referring to Peggy, the cook, a former girlfriend] She's been sore at me ever since I took her to that Halloween dances last year.
- Michael Shayne: Yeah?
- Chief Jonathan Meek: Yeah, she forgot her mask. All I said was "You don't need one." Women's funny ctitters!
- Michael Shayne: [laconically] You know I can't understand why she should be sore.