Friday, November 4, 2011

Murder on the Blackboard (1934)


Radio Pictures
Directed by George Archainbaud
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

A music teacher turns up dead at a school. Fellow teacher and amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers discovers the body and takes up the case. Inspector Piper is the police detective who can't quite keep up with her abilities. The suspects include the school principal and the music teacher's friends and ex-boyfriends. The clues boil down to: benzine, liquor, a dead ant and some musical notes left on a blackboard. A bit too cerebral at times, but entertaining nonetheless.

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