The Mandarin Mystery
# The Mandarin Mystery

The Mandarin Mystery is a 1936 American mystery crime film directed by Ralph Staub, loosely based on The Chinese Orange Mystery, a novel featuring detective character Ellery Queen.

## Plot summary

Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.

## Cast

* Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, a mystery writer and amateur detective
* Charlotte Henry as Josephine Temple
* Rita La Roy as Martha Kirk
* Wade Boteler as Inspector Richard Queen, A police inspector, Ellery's father.
* Franklin Pangborn as Mellish, the hotel manager
* George Irving as Dr. Alexander Kirk
* Kay Hughes as Irene Kirk
* William Newell as Detective Guffy
* George Walcott as Donald Trent
* Edwin Stanley as Howard Bronson
* Edgar Allen as Detective
* Bert Roach
* Richard Beach as Reporter
* Monte Vandergrift as Detective
* Grace Durkin as Girl on Street Corner
* Mary Russell as Girl on Street Corner
* Mary Bovard as Girl At Cocktail Bar
* June Johnson as Girl At Cocktail Bar

## Soundtrack

No soundtrack album was created

