Overview

A string of valuable pearls provides the motivation for the murder of Wareing, a widowed banker, who intended them for his daughter, Mary. She is comforted by Barton, a criminologist and friend of her late father, who appears to have left his financial affairs in a terrible state. Meanwhile, Mary's fiancé works diligently to identify the murderer. Although the criminologist places the blame on Wareing's butler, a reformed burglar, the killer is finally revealed to be Barton himself.

Top Cast

Violet Palmer

Jack Ackroyd

Arthur Donaldson

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Louis B. Foley

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William J. Gross

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Aida Horton

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Horace James

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Emily Lorraine

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John Sharkey

Stanley Walpole

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William Wells