(Spoilers) In this the third and last of the "I Love a Mystery" movies no one ends up losing their head like in the two previous one's, "The Decapitation of Jefferson Monk" and "The Devil's Mask", but we do have Rachel Martin, Karen Morley, lose her mind in it.
Rachel was secretly married to Richard Aronld, Robert Wilcox, which had her outraged father Capt. Selby Martin, Boyd Davis, throw a fit when he found out about it! With Selby pulling out his revolver he and Richard struggled until it went off and blew the captain away. That if anything annulled the marriage between Richard & Rachal with him being accused by the dead captain's wife Phoebe, Helen Freeman, of murdering him! Now 20 years later there's a will to be read to the surviving Martin clan in what Phoebe, who passed away the week before, wants to be done with the Martin Mansion, and everything thats goes along with it, in the Kentucky Blue Grass country.
It's when private eyes Jack Packard and Doc Long, Jim Bannon & Barton Yarborough, are hired by this mysterious Adam Franklin to see that the mentally challenged Rachel Martin's 20 year old daughter that she had with the on the lamb Richard Arnold Nina, Jeff Donnell, gets her share of the Martin fortune. That has Phoebe's two reclusive sons Eddie & Ralphie,James Bell & Wilton Graff, go on the warpath in them wanting the mansion and everything in it including Joshua the butler, played by J. Louis Johnson, all for themselves!
Things get really complicated later on when Phoebe's last will & testament that to be read the next morning is somehow lost from the Martin family lawyer's Reed Cawthorne, Mark Roberts, briefcase! The biggest surprise of all is the unexpected arrival of Richard Arnold, whom Phoebe Martin hated like poison, showing up for the reading at the late Phoebe's written request!
***SPOILERS*** Someone out there in Blue Grass country doesn't want Phoebe's lost will to be found or read in that whoever he or she is wants to keep things the way there were all these years. And with both Nina and her estranged father Richard, who was lost at sea for the last 20 years, about to get part of the Martin estate that person was willing to go so far as murder! In he or she keeping them from getting anything that Phoebe was to leave to them in her will!
It's no big surprise who this mystery man really is and by the time he's exposed by Jack Packard & Doc Long you just about lost interest, together with the cast of characters that's in it, in the movie. That's unless your willing to suffer through the films final torturous confusing and not making any kind of sense at all ten minutes!
Rachel was secretly married to Richard Aronld, Robert Wilcox, which had her outraged father Capt. Selby Martin, Boyd Davis, throw a fit when he found out about it! With Selby pulling out his revolver he and Richard struggled until it went off and blew the captain away. That if anything annulled the marriage between Richard & Rachal with him being accused by the dead captain's wife Phoebe, Helen Freeman, of murdering him! Now 20 years later there's a will to be read to the surviving Martin clan in what Phoebe, who passed away the week before, wants to be done with the Martin Mansion, and everything thats goes along with it, in the Kentucky Blue Grass country.
It's when private eyes Jack Packard and Doc Long, Jim Bannon & Barton Yarborough, are hired by this mysterious Adam Franklin to see that the mentally challenged Rachel Martin's 20 year old daughter that she had with the on the lamb Richard Arnold Nina, Jeff Donnell, gets her share of the Martin fortune. That has Phoebe's two reclusive sons Eddie & Ralphie,James Bell & Wilton Graff, go on the warpath in them wanting the mansion and everything in it including Joshua the butler, played by J. Louis Johnson, all for themselves!
Things get really complicated later on when Phoebe's last will & testament that to be read the next morning is somehow lost from the Martin family lawyer's Reed Cawthorne, Mark Roberts, briefcase! The biggest surprise of all is the unexpected arrival of Richard Arnold, whom Phoebe Martin hated like poison, showing up for the reading at the late Phoebe's written request!
***SPOILERS*** Someone out there in Blue Grass country doesn't want Phoebe's lost will to be found or read in that whoever he or she is wants to keep things the way there were all these years. And with both Nina and her estranged father Richard, who was lost at sea for the last 20 years, about to get part of the Martin estate that person was willing to go so far as murder! In he or she keeping them from getting anything that Phoebe was to leave to them in her will!
It's no big surprise who this mystery man really is and by the time he's exposed by Jack Packard & Doc Long you just about lost interest, together with the cast of characters that's in it, in the movie. That's unless your willing to suffer through the films final torturous confusing and not making any kind of sense at all ten minutes!