Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom.

The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise.

When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making suicide unlikely.

When the evidence points to his brother, Brisbane is found stabbed to death in the closet.

Archer had a number of enemies, any one of which would have been glad to knock him off, but which one did and how did the murder occur in a room looked from the inside.

Date : 1933
Cast : William Powell as Philo Vance
Mary Astor as Hilda Lake
Eugene Pallette as Detective Heath
Ralph Morgan as Raymond Wrede, the Secretary
Robert McWade as District Attorney Markham
Robert Barrat as Archer Coe
Frank Conroy (actor) as Brisbane Coe
Etienne Girardot as Dr.

Doremus
James Lee as Liang, the Cook
Paul Cavanagh as Sir Thomas MacDonald
Arthur Hohl as Gamble, the Butler
Helen Vinson as Doris Delafield
Jack La Rue as Eduardo Grassi