A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
Acting
David Janssen's world-weary detective schtick before The Fugitive.
Production
Gloriously seedy old Hollywood locations that no longer exist.
Writing
Clue-stuffed plot that actually respects your intelligence.

Director
Joseph M. Newman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Joseph M. Newman's final theatrical feature before fleeing to television, which explains the episode-like tightness.
The 'fan club secretary' murder taps into real 1950s anxieties about obsessive fandom and the dangerous intimacy of celebrity culture.