No Place for a Lady

PI William Gargan and his fiancee, Margaret Lindsay, look at his newly acquired vacation property. It's perfect, except for the corpse they find. Fortunately it turns out to be a waxwork figure, but they soon are embroiled in a clearly WWII comedy-mystery which inolves nightclubs, air raid wardens, and rubber tires.

This is far more a knockabout farce than the Ellery Queen mysteries they were leading, so they're playing generic characters. It's a decently done B from director James Hogan, with Phyllis Brooks, James Purcell, Jerome Cowan and Thomas Jackson as a cop along for the ride.