A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from an old dowager to pay off a blackmailer. The private eye soon finds himself up to his ears in cover-ups, fights, more blackmail, a timid secretary, hysterical women and murder.
This is the first in a series of movies about private detective Michael Shayne, a character created by Brett Halliday, but the story is actually based on Raymond Chandler's novel "The High Window".
Lloyd Nolan as Michael Shayne
Heather Angel as Myrle Davis
Doris Merrick as Linda Conquest Murdock
Ralph Byrd as Lou Venter
Richard Lane as Lt. Breeze
Sheila Bromley as Lois Morny
Morris Ankrum as Alexander Morny
Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Murdock