You're Out of Luck (1941)

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.