After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.

Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.

A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.

A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

Bradford Galt est un détective privé flirtant avec sa fidèle secrétaire Kathleen. Un jour, il est pris en filature par un homme au complet blanc peu discret. Galt intercepte l’homme et lui fait avouer le nom de son commanditaire qui n’est autre que Tony Jardine, un ancien associé ayant trahi Galt dans le passé. Jardine est un avocat véreux qui extorque de l’argent à des femmes fortunées. Il fréquente notamment la belle Mari, femme de son ami Hardy Cathcart, le raffiné propriétaire d’une galerie d’art. Lorsque Galt s’en va à la rencontre de Jardine pour avoir des explications sur sa filature, il ne se doute pas qu’il est en fait l’objet d’une sombre machination. Heureusement pour lui, sa secrétaire veille à ce rien ne lui arrive…

A PI investigates a priest's murder.

Le général Sternwood engage le détective privé Philip Marlowe pour régler une affaire de chantage dont il est victime. Un dénommé Geiger possèderait des photos compromettantes de sa fille cadette, Carmen. Mais Marlowe découvre que le maître chanteur a été assassiné. Rapidement, les cadavres s'accumulent et l'intrigue se complique. De nombreux personnage entrent en scène, dont Vivian, la sœur aînée de Carmen.

A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and disprove a fraudulent insurance claim.

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.

Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.

When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of double bluff with the enemy agents.

A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.

A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.

Après le naufrage de deux cargos, le financier Curt Valayan a touché quinze millions de dollars de sa compagnie d'assurances. Mais la cause des accidents reste obscure et intrigue la compagnie. Elle engage le détective Richard Cutting pour retrouver Walter Green, le comptable de Valayan, qui semblait prêt à révéler des malversations de son employeur. Se rendant en Suisse pour retrouver sa trace, qui s'arrête dans l'épave d'un avion, Cutting rencontre Matt Wilson et son acolyte, eux aussi à la recherche de Green. Persuadé que Green se cache en Suisse, Cutting entre en contact avec sa secrétaire et finit par retrouver sa trace à Zurich...

David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.

A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town's first family. When the Sheriff proves unable to solve the case, the town leaders invite Investigator Burns to unravel the mystery.

Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a suicide, but which smells like murder.

Dans les années 40, un détective privé voit sa vie chamboulée par la petite amie d'Al Capone qui veut s'enfuir avec lui.