A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Loretta Young
as Nancy Troy
Brian Aherne
as Jeff Troy
Jeff Donnell
as Anne Carstairs
William Wright
as Scott Carstairs
Sidney Toler
as Inspector Hankins
Gale Sondergaard
as Mrs. Devoe
Donald MacBride
as Bolling
Lee Patrick
as Polly Franklin
Don Costello
as Eddie Turner
Richard Gaines
as Lingle
Frank Baker
as Minor Role (uncredited)
William Benedict
as Messenger Boy (uncredited)