School teacher and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) is on a seaplane to a holiday resort with an assorted set of fellow passengers. When they reach their destination one of the passengers is found to be dead. In NY Inspector Piper (James Gleason) discovers the victim had a bounty on his head from the mob and heads out to join Hildegarde to investigate the death.
Despite a small pool of suspects including newly weds (Harry Ellerbe and Dorothy Libaire) and a somewhat eccentric movie producer (Leo G Carroll), the investigation is complicated. Hildegarde bullys the hapless, laid back local police (Spencer Charters) into action, and then she and Piper form an amusingly dysfunctional but effective crime fighting duo.
A fine little murder investigation film with plenty of the usual red herrings and multiple suspects. A complicated plot and highly enjoyable especially with the twists at the end and the unusual (for the time) culprit. Oliver and Gleason steal every scene, they are brilliant.
