Home Sweet Homicide

Home Sweet Homicide

MYSTERY FICTION COMES TO LIFE...WITH LAUGHING, BAFFLING SUSPENSE!

NR 1946 · 90 min · ★ 4.5 · Comedy, Mystery

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon · Written by F. Hugh Herbert

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