when gangster kingpin nate girard get off the hook at his trial for murder and his high price shyster lawyer throw a party to celebrate . and the guest be the reporter and news photographer who cover the trial . what a bunch . cigar chewer and bumble shutter clickers and wise alecks . yeah and and kent murdoch ( lew ayres ) be there and ace photographer always with an angle and a wise crack and fast with his word and especially now listen and baby . when he with a good look dame . he a decent guy . there i. b. mcgoogin ( paul stewart ) and fast talk and wisecrack news reporter who always wind up one step behind murdock . but one guest doesn not fit in . a beautiful raven haired dame name meg archer ( gail patrick ) . she come across a so aristocratic that we can not be sure if it ice water in her vein or just the slow syrup of delayed gratification . and wouldn not you know it and murder show up and too . right in the middle of the party and when the flashbulb be pop and a guy also get pop . not nate and but his lawyer . and who immediately disappear . yep and meg vanishes even faster than a pair of straight dice at a crap game . she wind up at kent apartment with a story and a plea for help . it not long before someone realize that a picture kent take at the party just might show the murderer and that kent former girlfriend want some money and that nate girard be willing to pay big for what he say he have to have and that the cop think nate be in the middle and that meg have some sort of side deal and that kent will go all out to help meg and that . a lot keep move around in this mystery play with a light touch . murder with picture be just what it be and a 69 minute programmer with a few good point and a plot that get too complicate for it own good and and a production that never receive the studio love that might have make it good . among those good point be see lew ayres and who play the naive and sincere gun fodder in all quiet on the western front and turn in a wise guy performance by channel chester morris . he handle the role with some style . ayres be a reliable and likable lead actor whose strong suit be decency . he become a pacifist after make all quiet . with the doctor kildare series that start in 1938 and lew ayres find himself a matinée idol . when pearl harbor be attack and ayres be draft and he declare himself a conscientious objector . he be crucify in the press and his career vanish . he finally be grant his early request to join the army medical corp . he serve under fire in the pacific and in new guinea . after the war and when it become know he have serve a a combat medic and he gradually begin to get film offer but for seldom more than character role . ayres receive an oscar nomination for best actor for the doctor in johnny belinda . just like dr. kildare and ayres be a decent guy with the backbone to stand firm for his belief .