A chic comedy-thriller in the Thin Man vein, with Jean Arthur replacing Myrna Loy as Powell's intrepid partner in crime-solving. That is the unwelcome avocation of the illustrious surgeon, Bradford, whose ex-wife has a mania for mysteries, real and imagined. Of course the imagined quickly becomes real as the good doctor finds a series of killings, and suspicious cops, on his own doorstep. William K. Everson writes, "No prizes are offered for the successful guessing of the mystery killer, but the 'why' is much more interesting than the 'who,' and the bantering comedy by-play is constantly engaging. Director Stephen Roberts perhaps didn't have quite the sense of pace of W. S. Van Dyke, but he had taste and a real sense of cinema. His promising career (already specializing in comedy and melodrama) was cut short by an early death."