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Fast company: Who bumped of bibliophile Otto Brockler? Mystery turns a new page when bookdealers and amateur sleuths Joel and Garda Sloane (Melva Douglas, Florenc Rice) sift through clues and suspects.
Fast and loose: When a rare Shakespeare manuscript is stolen, the stage is set for murder.
Fast and furious: The Sloanes, rescuing a friend, are falsley accused of gunning down a shady beauty-pageant promoter.
3) Chandler
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Chandler ditches his rent-a-cop job to return to sleuthing as a P.I. His first gig is to pick up a woman at L.A.'s Union Station. Then he has to keep them both alive.
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In this early, comedic version of "The Maltese Falcon," jaded gumshoe Ted Shane (Warren William) is hired by enigmatic Valerie Purvis (Bette Davis) to find a man who spurned her. When Shane's partner and his mark both wind up murdered, the detective suspects that Valerie may be harboring some secrets. Soon, Shane has another client: Mrs. Barabbas (Alison Skipworth), a woman who's searching for a legendary jeweled ram's horn that quickly becomes sought...
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He's the coolest private detective around, caught up in all the hottest cases. Streetsmart Harlem sleuth John Shaft likes his women chic, his cars fast, and his clothes expensive. He takes the fight to mob lowlifes, scumballs, and vigilantes who prey upon Shaft's pals and other decent, everyday people.
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African-American private investigator Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenaged daughter; Shaft comes to the aid of his girlfriend after her brother is murdered by the mob; Shaft goes to Africa to track down a slave-trading operation and becomes entangled in an international scheme of corruption and murder.
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"Tom Conway continues his run as the suave society sophisticate sleuth Tom Lawrence in the second half of the smash RKO mystery series. Making the title role strictly his own, Conway clearly delights in mixing the detective with the dash. The war years and thereafter see the Falcon head out west for an extended sojourn, tackling criminals up and down the coast!"--Container.
The Falcon out West: "A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas...
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Miscreants beware! The Falcon is on the hunt! Suave, sophisticated, hard-boiled and high-minded, amateur sleuths Gay and Tom Lawrence.
The gay Falcon: "A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam"--Www.tcm.com, viewed March 27, 2015.
A date with the Falcon: "The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds"--Www.tcm.com, viewed March 27, 2015.
The Falcon takes over: "A society sleuth and a lady reporter...
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