Trent's Last Case

A society woman (Margaret Lockwood) is accused of murdering her businessman husband (Orson Welles). Called to piece the clues together is Philip Trent (Michael Wilding), a gentle-manly sleuth on the verge of retirement.

Trent's Last Case is in many ways the prototype for the modern whodunnit, Wilcox sprinkles the clues and red herrings with a reliably steady hand. Appearing in a series of flashbacks, Welles gives his usual scene-stealing turn, masterfully creating a thoroughly unsympathetic victim just begging to be bumped off.