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



A jockey has been shot dead at the race track. Famous detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora happen to be on the scene and Lt. Abrahams asks for Nick's expert help.




Nick and Nora's hopes for a pleasant afternoon at the local race track are dashed when a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room. Nick's friend Lt. Abrams wants him to help out but Nick is enjoying the good life too much to get involved. However, he is subsequently approached by Major Scully to look into corruption and the role of organized crime in gambling. Others are killed but in the end, Nick gathers all of the suspects into a room and identifies the killer.
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A jockey has been shot dead at the race track. Famous detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora happen to be on the scene and Lt. Abrahams would like Nick's expert help. Nick, however, tries to stay out of it but is enticed in when a friend asks him to investigate the presence of criminal gangs in gambling.
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Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a day of leisure, but when they make a trip to the race track, they learn that a jockey, who was recently accused of throwing a race, has just been found shot to death. With his friend Lieutenant Abrams in charge of the case, Nick has difficulty keeping from getting involved. Then a special state deputy, in charge of investigating gambling scandals, comes to see Nick. He tells Nick that the jockey could have been silenced by a gambling syndicate, and he asks for Nick's help. Soon Nick is fully involved in a complicated and hazardous investigation.
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SYNOPSIS

In the fourth Thin Man movie, Nick, Nora and Asta picked up their detective hats again to help clear a friend of a murder charge.

Nick was feeling lucky one day and took Nora to the races, but what was waiting for him was not winning - it was murder.

A jockey was found shot dead in a shower stall, rumoured to be the result of not co-operating with Fred Macy and Link Stephens, racketeers known for fixing races and taking illegal bets. Later that day, Nick got a visit from old friends Major Sculley and Paul. Major Sculley was the deputy director of the racing committee and was investigating Macy and Stephens with Pauls help. Nick was invited to join the sleuthing, but he turned them down.

The same night, Paul sneaked into Stephens office to look for a black notebook that records all of the bets and names of people who worked for them. Whitey Barrow, a fellow journalist who was on Stephens payroll found him, knocked him unconscious; only to get himself killed. No one saw who shot Barrow, but the night watchman saw Rainbow Benny left immediately after the shooting.

Nick and Nora again found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. But seeing that Paul and his fiancée Molly (Stephens secretary) were accused of murder, they had to play detective to save Paul and Molly.

Nick quickly solved the first murder with Asta's help. The jockey's death was an accident, the gun fell and the accidental shot killing him. Nick persuaded Lieutenant Abrams to let him release false reports, claiming that the jockey and Barrow were killed by the same person; thus forcing the murderer to act. The trick worked and Nick was able to narrow the suspects down to three: Rainbow Benny, whom the night watchman saw leaving the office right after the shooting. Claire Porter, Stephen's British socialite girlfriend, who was really an ex-con. And Fred Macy, whose alibi was fa.

Nick went to Barrow's apartment to look for more clues and found both Claire Porter and her diamond bracelet. She confessed that Barrow was blackmailing her, threatening to expose her past to Stephens. She could no longer come up with the money he asked for, so she gave him the bracelet.

Having raised enough reasonable doubts, Nick was able to get Paul and Molly released. As he and Nora took the newly released lovers out to dinner, they ran into Rainbow Benny; but he slipped away when a fight broke out in the restaurant.

At Nick's request, Major Sculley used his influences and found out where Rainbow Benny lived. Wanting to use Benny as a co-operating witness for his case against Stephens, he joined Nick and Lieutenant Abrams as they rushed to Benny's apartment. They found Benny dead, strangled to death and then staged as suicide.

By now Nick had a pretty good idea who the murder might be, but could not be sure. So he had Lieutenant Abrams gather all suspects in the police station, hoping that one of them will be careless enough to make a mistake. And someone did.

It turned out that Rainbow Benny had been living in fear of his life and had just moved apartments the night he was killed. So whomever knew of his latest address, would be the murderer. With the door locked and a room full of police officers, Major Sculley was trapped.

Seeing that there was no escape, Major Sculley grabbed Nicks gun, wanting to take everyone down with him. Nora jumped on him to protect Nick and was overpowered by Major Sculley. This gave the police a break to get in, and after a rugby-style struggle, a relieved Lieutenant Abrams had the gun in his hands. He then found out that it wasn't even loaded!

Nick had been carrying empty guns for years, ever since Nicky Jr. was old enough to play with them............