Gerald (Richard Denning) and Bamela North (Barbara Britton) receive a
pair of dolls, bride and groom, with the bride doll having a knife stuck
in its back. Shortly thereafter, a real bride (Lillian Bronson) literally
falls into their appartment, dead, with a knife in her back. Pamela
identifies her as one of the neighbours, Louise Perry. Soon afterwards, an
older woman (Sheila Watson) pays Gerald and Pamela a visit and threatens
them at gunpoint, just to get the two puppets. After she's gone, Gerald
and Pamela follow her to an across the street appartment building - when
Gerald realizes there's somebody in their own appartment and heads back,
leaving Pamela to investigate on her own ... and she just manages to trip
over a doorbell saying Perry, the same name the dead woman had, and
pays a certain Mr Perry (Fay Roope) a visit, who turns out to be Louise
Perry's ex-husband, and he had every reason to hate her because she left
him after he risked his life saving her from a fire - and got disfigured
for life. And since he a) now threatens Pamela and b) the older woman who
took the dolls from the Norths' appartment turns out to be his sister, he
is suddenly prime suspect.
Meanwhile Gerald has gotten back to the appartment and has found a man
lurking about who turns out to be Gibson (Donald Randolph), the groom to
Louise Perry's bride. When police inspector Weigand (Francis De Sales)
arrives on the scene as well, all three men decide to go look for Pamela -
and as a thank you for their efforts are presented with a tailor-made
suspect in the murder case. Only Pamela thinks differently - thanks to a
newspaper clipping she has culled from the dead woman's hand that proves
Gibson to be a bigamist ... and before you know it, she has sloved the
case.
Not all uncharming, if you like lighthearted murder mysteries from
early television - but also a tad too constructed to remain believable.
Still, the short running time (approx 25 minutes) might be the episode's
saving grace.
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