a very young ginger rogers trade quick quip and one liner with rival newspaper reporter lyle talbot in this 1933 murder mystery from poverty row film maker ally production . the movie open with a wealthy businessman take a header from the roof garden of a high rise apartment house and or be it from a lover apartment . rogers actually have two identity at the film outset and that of miss terry and the dead victim secretary and along with her newspaper byline of pat morgan . mistakenly phone her story directly to ted rand ( talbot ) instead of her paper rewrite desk and she get fire for her effort when her bos learn he be out scooped . here a puzzle it reveal during police inspector russell ( purnell pratt ) investigation of harker death that terry or morgan have be employ a his secretary for three week . why exactly be that . after the fact it would make sense that she be there for a newspaper story and but before . clue be drop regard harker association with a know mobster conveniently live in the same apartment building and but again and that association isn not relevant until it all link up to janitor peterson ( harvey clark ) . and who make up all the call card with the serpent effect a hsss and with the word you will hear it cut and paste beneath . apparently and the hiss sound of a snake be the sound make by the apartment house radiator system and which peterson use to transmit a poisonous gas into the room of potential victim and such a mrs. coby in the apartment below harker . but in answer to a question pose to inspector russell about mrs. coby death and he reply apparently to the cause of strangulation . it these rather conflicting plot point that make the movie somewhat unsatisfying for me . the revelation of janitor peterson a the bad guy of this piece come under somewhat gruesome circumstance a we see him stuff the unconscious body of miss morgan in the building incinerator furnace . however and and score another point against continuity and we see miss morgan in a huge basement room a peterson ignite the furnace while she make her getaway and but how . and still pretty a a picture . and who get to make the collar off screen if none other than milquetoast police assistant wilfred ( arthur hoyt ) and who in an opening scene fell over his own foot enter a room . sorry and but for all those reviewer who find a shriek in the night to be a satisfying whodunit and i feel that any charlie chan film of the same era be a veritable the usual suspect by comparison . if you need a reason to see the film and it would be ginger rogers and but be advise and she doesn not dance .