The Voice of Merrill (1952)

Directors

John Gilling

Cast

Valerie Hobson, James Robertson Justice, Edward Underdown, Henry Kendall

The story

A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe might have had a motive: struggling author Hugh Allen was involved in a relationship with the dead woman; Allen's publisher Ronald Parker, who had been blackmailed out of several thousand pounds while she was in his employ, and playwright Jonathan Roach who knew the woman but is evasive about the exact nature of their acquaintance. None of the three can provide a verifiable alibi for the time of the murder, so Inspector Thornton decides to shadow them in the belief that sooner or later the guilty party will betray…

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