“In obvious but nonetheless welcome spinoffs from The Thin Man, both of these comedy thrillers star William Powell, teamed with Ginger Rogers in the former and Jean Arthur in the latter. 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. Both films are directed by Stephen Roberts, who perhaps didn't have quite the sense of pace of W.S. Van Dyke who did the Thin Man films, but who had taste and a real sense of cinema, and whose promising career (already specialising in comedy and melodrama) was cut short by an early death.”