Philo Vance Returns (1947)

""EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!""

Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.