of the ten actor who portray philo vance in the series and edmund lowe seem the most personable and but in this script the audience be way ahead of the famed detective . after all and when the jockey and douglas walton and stare blankly in space and obviously hypnotize and and say something like i must ride and be kill and i felt it be dumb that no one pick up on it after he do get kill . the police think it be a suicide because he say he would do it . after hated horse owner gene lockhart get shot and kill and frieda inescort do the same thing and say she go out to be kill and and then fatally jump off a bus . i laugh when lowe finally yell i get it and a though it be a revelation . the guilty party and however and be cleverly conceal and there be considerable suspense generate when that party start to hypnotize lowe to get him to jump off a roof .