Detective "Ellery Queen" (Donald Cook) sets off with Justice "Macklin" (Merton Churchill) for a holiday on the Californian Spanish Cape. They have hardly had a chance to rub on the factor 30 before there is a kidnap and a murder at the neighbouring home of the "Godfrey" family, and what with "Queen" being quite keen on the daughter "Stella" (Helen Twelvetrees) they chip into the investigation. The mystery itself is all a bit routine, but it does have some fun dialogue between the star and local sheriff "Moley" (Harry Stubbs) and as the bodies start to pop up all over the place, the entire famil... lire la suite.