Story :Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Cast
James StephensonPhilo Vance
Margot StevensonHilda Lake
Henry O'NeillMarkham
Edward BrophyRyan
Sheila BromleyDoris Delafield
Ralph ForbesTom McDonald
Donald DouglasPhilip Wrede
Martin KosleckGamble
Jimmy ConlinDr. Doremus - Coroner
Edward RaquelloEduardo Grassi
Creighton HaleDu Bois - Fingerprint Man
Harry StrangHennessey - Markham's Assistant
Richard KiplingArcher Coe
Wedgwood NowellBrisbane Coe
Bo LingLing Toy
TerryMacTavish (uncredited)
Herbert AndersonFirst Reporter (uncredited)
Henry BlairHans Snauble (uncredited)
Egon BrecherAustrian Judge (uncredited)
Harry BurnsCapt. Lugo (uncredited)
Yakima CanuttSorrento Sailor (uncredited)
Nat Carr2nd Photographer (uncredited)
Glen CavenderTrain Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)
Loia CheaneyMarkham's Secretary (uncredited)
Frederick GiermannAustrian Sergeant (uncredited)
Eddie GrahamCoroner's Assistant (uncredited)
John HarronThird Reporter (uncredited)
Stuart HolmesHertz (uncredited)
William HopperClerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)
Olaf HyttenCharles (uncredited)
George IrvingAvery (uncredited)
Marion LessingMrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)
Rolf LindauAeronautics Department Sentry (uncredited)