Murder Is My Business
Murder Is My Business
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
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Richard Keene
as Tim Rourke
Broderick O'Farrell
as Archibald
Cheryl Walker
as Phyllis Hamilton
Lyle Talbot
as Buell Renslow
George Meeker
as Carl Meldrum
Ralph Dunn
as Pete Rafferty
Virginia Christine
as Dora Darnell
Donald Kerr
as Taxi Driver
Jack Chefe
as Headwaiter
Hugh Beaumont
as Michael Shayne
Pierre Watkin
as Arnold Ramsey
Carol Andrews
as Mona Tabor
Helene Heigh
as Eleanor Ramsey
