melvyn douglas once more give a polished performance in which and this time and he inhabit the role of a detective who can not place love before duty and adventure and and the warmly beautiful joan blondell ( who and far from be illiterate and a one reviewer suggest and write a novel about her early life ) be as enjoyable a ever a his ever suffer sweetheart . it almost a screwball comedy and almost a thin man type movie and almost a series and i guess and that do not quite make it to a sequel . it doesn not quite reach classic status and but it have all the ingredient for a fun 85 minute with an episodic but pacey script and fine character actor and and direction that keep it all move fast enough so that you nearly do not notice that williams ( douglas ) isn not exactly columbo when it come to detect . i wish there be more film like this .