The Thirteenth Guest

Thirteen years after a dinner party at which the thirteenth chair stayed empty, the guests are being murdered and put back in their seats, and the chair is wired to the mains. Ginger Rogers, twenty-one and before Astaire, is the daughter of the house, already faster than everyone around her; Lyle Talbot is the private detective. Albert Ray directs a poverty-row mystery with more invention than its budget, from a novel by Armitage Trail, who also wrote Scarface. An hour. Monogram, 1932.