I didn’t like the story but I like the humour here and there around this character of Reeder. That was the only nice part. It was not heavy humour, no, just a little bit of irony here and there.
It starts with a Russian actor getting often drunk and blabbing of a precious jewel, then he gets killed and Reeder is involved because an ex prisoner is suspected and he wants Reeder to find the truth.
Then: his secretary, miss Gillette, tells him that her boyfriend Tommy had a business partner, Seafield, that disappeared with his money. A clergy man, Ingham, tells him of Ralph, who disappeared, right before Joan Ralph the daughter asks for his help.
A redhead young man is the one who valued the jewel; he uses that as an excuse to approach Joan, since he fell for her just by seeing a picture.
It turns out that Ingham is actually Kennedy, and that the big fraud was still going on, although I have not understood what… how… I don’t know, Kennedy wanted somehow to con a lot of men out of their money, and then keep them prisoner under his house… who knows why?
So, Ingham is executed because he killed a man, his wife and the two thugs at his orders are sentenced to life in prison.
We do not know what happens to everyone: did anyone get their money back? did Seafield go back to Joan or will the redhead win her? was everyone ok? (and why were they kept prisoners,
fed and walked?) did miss Gillette go back to work for Reeder? She wrote that Ingham had a better job for her and Tommy, and Reeder was quite happy of letting her go, but now?
I didn’t much like this mess.
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