Standard issue B-movie mystery quickie with comic relief that provides little actual relief. This doesn’t live up to the title. James Dunn is a wisecracking private detective who’s hired to find a missing rich guy. Does the rich guy live in a palatial home with a lot of sourpusses who might have killed him? Of course he does. Does he also have a shady butler? You bet. It isn’t long into the movie before the missing man turns up, but he’s in a weird chronic sleepwalking state (he’s a “living ghost”, I guess) and then the mystery really begins—and then it loses steam about three minutes later. Thankfully, the whole movie is only sixty-one minutes long.
It’s another plate of runny eggs from director William “One-Shot” Beaudine, one of the most prolific cinematic short order cooks in B-movie history.