Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
Directed by Walter Forde
Genres - Mystery |
Sub-Genres - Police Detective Film |
Run Time - 90 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this mystery, the last entry in the Inspector Hornleigh series, Inspector Harker and his assistant take a two-week vacation to the English seaside. Just as the vacation is about to end, a fellow guest in their boardinghouse drives over a cliff and is burned to death. The local cops consider it an accident, but the Inspector has his own suspicions and begins to investigate. He soon exposes a gang of crooks planted the car with another body to cash in on an insurance policy.
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insurance-fraud, murder, police-inspector, vacation