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There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Keywords
fire escape
homicide
amateur detective
music teacher
anemia
basement
murder
janitor
alcoholic
ex-con
pre-code
police investigation
blackboard
schoolteacher
schoolhouse
police inspector
secret marriage
lottery ticket
amateur sleuth
poisoning
blow to the head
Casts

Edna May Oliver
Hildegarde Withers

James Gleason
Police Insp. Oscar Piper

Bruce Cabot
Stevens

Gertrude Michael
Jane Davis

Regis Toomey
Detective Smiley North

Edgar Kennedy
Detective Donahue

Tully Marshall
MacFarland

Jackie Searl
Leland

Frederick Vogeding
Otto (as Fredrik Vogeding)
Barbara Fritchie
Louise

Gustav von Seyffertitz
Dr. Von Immen
Tom Herbert
Detective McTeague

Jed Prouty
Dr. Levine

Wade Boteler
Bearded Diner (Uncredited)

Tommy Bupp
School Boy (uncredited)

Frank Mills
Diner Counterman (uncredited)
Monte Vandergrift
Policeman (uncredited)
Crews

George Archainbaud
Director
Bernhard Kaun
Original Music Composer

Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction

Walter Plunkett
Costume Design

Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction

Nicholas Musuraca
Director of Photography
Archie Marshek
Editor

Max Steiner
Original Music Composer

Pandro S. Berman
Executive Producer
Kenneth Macgowan
Associate Producer
Ollie Sigurdson
Still Photographer

Willis Goldbeck
Screenplay
Stuart Palmer
Novel

Max Steiner
Music Director
John L. Cass
Sound Recordist
Thomas Atkins
Assistant Director
Frank Redman
Camera Operator
Willard Booth
Assistant Camera
Harry Redmond Sr.
Special Effects Supervisor
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