From the beginning Shayne has suspected Ramsey-his work was assembling the proof-and at the end he is able to conclusively show the police who the actual innocent and guilty parties are.When I was at the book sale this year I ran into a box full of vintage paperbacks. Now Ramsey has to kill Meldrum, for which he tries to frame Eleanor's brother Buell Renslow, who was also at odds with her over money. But Carl Meldrum, an ex-con gigolo dating Dorothy, just happened to be present and witness the actual murder being a con man, he begins blackmailing Ramsey.

The police believe this lie and close the case. When Darnell breaks in and arrives in the bedroom, he discovers this and tries to revive her, which provides Ramsey the excuse to shoot and kill him, claiming he caught Darnell in the act of murder. Having set the stage, Ramsey proceeds to strangle his wife as she sleeps. However, later that night, Darnell takes it upon himself to go to the Ramsey home, claiming Shayne hired him, and he is accepted by Ramsey. Shayne instead offers good advice to stay on the up-and-up, handing him a $50 gift check.

Darnell's wife Dora is pregnant, Joe needs $1000, and he anxiously volunteers to play the burglar. At the office Shayne vents his frustration to his secretary Phyllis, but does not see that his old friend, reformed ex-convict, and down on his luck, Joe Darnell and his wife are present in the office and overhear. Shayne cautiously tells Ramsey he will think it over. He has hatched an insurance fraud scheme in which the actor would break in and find $1000 in an empty jewelry case in his wife's bedroom. Insultingly implying that Shayne is on the shady side, Ramsey asks if Shayne will find some character to stage a phony jewelry burglary. As Shayne is leaving this meeting, Arnold Ramsey wants a word with him. In flashback the viewer sees the details of her bad home situation. Eleanor meets with private detective Mike Shayne to hire him to investigate threatening letters she has been receiving. Plot Īrnold Ramsey and his two grown children Dorothy and Ernest, are hateful toward Ramsey's second wife Eleanor who has money of her own but refuses to spend it on supporting their frivolous lifestyles. The film was released on March 7, 1946, by Producers Releasing Corporation. The film stars Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Lyle Talbot, George Meeker, Pierre Watkin, and Richard Keene. It is based on the 1940 novel The Uncomplaining Corpses by Brett Halliday. Murder Is My Business is a 1946 American action film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton.

Murder is my business brett halliday