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Dragging along her boyfriend Johnny, hare-brained secretary Kitty O'Day is unstoppable as she tries to determine her boss's murderer.

In her exuberance she and Johnny keep running into more corpses, as well as the unbelievably inept team of Inspector Clancy and his sergeant, Mike.

Their luck seems to run out, though, as they deliver themselves right into the hands of the murderer.

The Adventures of Kitty O' Day is a comedy-mystery with an emphasis on comedy which is quite zany and full of funny wisecracks- as for the mystery, it consists of the amateur sleuths disguising themselves as cleaners, ending up escaping from the police via the window ledge and stumbling on two corpses. It's a fun, zany film with good performances by all, especially Jean Parker.

Returning to New York City from Europe, Boston Blackie tries unsuccessfully to strike up a conversation with attractive fellow ocean liner passenger Marilyn Howard. He later rescues her when she is accosted by a man. However, when he tries to follow her, he runs into his friendly nemesis, police Inspector Faraday, who wants to take him in on suspicion of stealing some pearls. Knowing that Blackie's word is good (and that handcuffs are useless against him), Faraday merely confiscates his landing card.

However, when Blackie discovers the body of the man who had bothered Marilyn Howard deposited in his suite, he has to break his word and debark to clear his name.

Meet Boston Blackie is the first in the series and a decent one to kick things off and an efficient programmer, fast paced with some good action and detective work. However it can get complicated and hard to keep up.

When Charlie Chan works with the local police in Rio De Janeiro to solve a pair of murders, and he is hot on the trail of a murderess -his powers of deduction are stretched to the full when someone else gets to her first, and the woman he's about to arrest is found dead, stabbed in the back, her jewels stolen, and a bevy of clues seemingly planted at the crime scene. It's up to Charlie to discover who killed his killer.

And he has a bevy of suspects to question: the singer's companion, an ex-husband, a friend along with Mary Beth's boyfriend, her rich playboy fiancée, a rival for his affections, a mind-reading mystic, and, of course, the butler ...

Charlie Chan in Rio is another excellent mystery with good humour (mainly due to number 2 son who finds romance with a Chinese maid), a strong and engaging mystery and a long line of suspects who are quite distinct in personality- loved Mary Beth Hughes as a catty character and Victor Jory as a slippery mystic; he's smooth as silk in his role. The ending is quite satisfactory and suspenseful- and the ladies in here are really pretty ( Cobina Wright, Kay Linaker and Mary Beth Hughes)