The Marlowe Files

The Eagle Murder Case


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Originally Aired: July 13, 1948
Philo Vance #1, "The Eagle Murder Case," begins with an impossible crime that baffles the police. James Dalton, injured in a car accident alongside his wife and two business partners from the Eagle Manufacturing Company, is placed alive in an ambulance with only minor fractures. When the vehicle arrives at the hospital, however, he's dead with a knife in his side. The ambulance was never opened during transit, and suicide is ruled out due to Dalton's fractured right arm. District Attorney Markham turns to private investigator Philo Vance and his quick-witted secretary Ellen Deering to solve the seemingly impossible murder.
Vance begins investigating the three people who were with Dalton during the accident: his wife and his partners Ed Edwards and Bill Graves. Each suspect points fingers at the others, with Edwards suggesting marital troubles and Mrs. Dalton claiming both partners wanted her husband out of their profitable costume jewelry firm. As Vance digs deeper into the tangled web of business relationships and personal animosities, he must determine not only who committed the murder, but how anyone could have stabbed Dalton inside a sealed ambulance.
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