Dr Ordway wants to get far away from his work in this installment of the Crime Doctor series. So he takes a hunting vacation in West Virginia where he will not be disturbed. Some vacation! He is embroiled in a typhoid epidemic and murder straight away. Instead of out of season hunting he ends up hunting for clues.
He stays at Sam and Amy Millerson's place. Sam is a country medicine herbalist who gets accused of murder when one of the deaths turns out to be a poisoning. Dr Ordway has to investigate the mountain folk with their petty jealousies to find a murderer among them. But first he has to get busy vaccinating the local population against the typhoid. Later he gets to attempt his hypnotizing skills and a bit of psychological trickery to uncover the murderer and the state of their mind.
Warner Baxter is playing the Crime Doctor for the eighth time in this one. This is a fair mystery in the series. Luke the Sheriff is the pick of the mountain folk. Clem Bevans plays him in his own authentic way to convince us he really lives in such a community.
He stays at Sam and Amy Millerson's place. Sam is a country medicine herbalist who gets accused of murder when one of the deaths turns out to be a poisoning. Dr Ordway has to investigate the mountain folk with their petty jealousies to find a murderer among them. But first he has to get busy vaccinating the local population against the typhoid. Later he gets to attempt his hypnotizing skills and a bit of psychological trickery to uncover the murderer and the state of their mind.
Warner Baxter is playing the Crime Doctor for the eighth time in this one. This is a fair mystery in the series. Luke the Sheriff is the pick of the mountain folk. Clem Bevans plays him in his own authentic way to convince us he really lives in such a community.