Jim Hanvey, Detective

(1937)

53 minutes

Mystery

Directed by Phil Rosen

Cast:

Guy Kibbee as James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey 
Tom Brown as Don Terry 
Lucie Kaye as Joan Frost 
Catherine Doucet as Adelaide Frost 
Edward Gargan as O. R.Smith 
Edward S. Brophy as Romo  
Helen Jerome Eddy as Mrs. Tom Ellis 
Theodor von Eltz as Dunn 
Kenneth Thomson as W. B. Elwood 
Howard Hickman as Herbert Frost 
Oscar Apfel as Lambert 
Wade Boteler as Davis 
Robert Emmett Keane as Editor 
Robert Homans as Sheriff Garrett 
Harry Tyler as Taxi Driver 

An insurance company hires Private Detective Jim Hanvey to recover a stolen emerald necklace. Jim Hanvey is a pleasant and great detective who has withdrawn to his country home. An insurance company enlists his help to find an emerald that has disappeared so they will not have to pay the $100,000 for insurance on the emerald. He quickly finds the missing emerald, but realizes that his job is not done when he cannot find the right person to return the emerald to. He ends up intertwined in a murder, where the wrong man is suspected of the murder.