A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

Murder by Death

1976

English

7.2

♡ 36

63%

dark and stormy night

Robert Moore Director

Maggie Smith as Dora Charleston

Truman Capote as Lionel Twain

Nancy Walker as Maid

Peter Falk as Sam Diamond

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

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Murder by Death