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3	''The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case'' is a 1943 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Creator/WarnerBaxter, Lynn Merrick and Gloria Dickson. It is the second in a series of Crime Doctor films made by Creator/ColumbiaPictures.
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5	Psychiatrist Robert Ordway (Baxter) comes to the aid of former client Jimmy Trotter (Creator/LloydBridges), whose new employer, Walter Burns, is found poisoned. Having cleared Jimmy of a similar charge earlier, Ordway investigates. When the Burns family cook is revealed as an impostor, Ordway hypnotizes the housekeeper to unearth a complex web of family and business connections, revolving around the disappearance 30 years earlier of Burns' partner, and the theft of $50,000.
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7	!!''The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case'' contains examples of:
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9	* ChainPain: The killer hits Dr. Ordway over the head with a chain and knocks him out in the abandoned nightclub.
10	* ClearTheirName: Jimmy Trotter comes to Dr. Ordway to clear his name after he is accused of murdering his employer.
11	* CreepyHousekeeper: The housekeeper Miss Patricia, who is an IgnoredEnamoredUnderling and is very keen to cast suspicion on the victim's young and pretty second wife.
12	* EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone in Walter Burns' household has a motive for his murder: some more obscure than others.
13	* FatSuit: Evelyn Cartwright wears a very convincing one when she is undercover as the cook Mrs. Keppler.
14	* FreshClue: When searching the abandoned nightclub, Dr. Ordway discovers that someone was there no more than 15 minutes before him because an oil lantern is still warm.
15	* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Miss Patricia has been Walter Burns' housekeeper for 30 years, and before that was a dancer in his club. She has been in love for with him for that entire time and he never noticed. And then he gets murdered. Could unrequited love be a motive for murder?
16	* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: During Dr. Ordway's final confrontation with the killer, the killer attempts to shoot him only to discover that his gun has been unloaded.
17	* IWasQuiteALooker: The rather plain housekeeper Miss Patricia reveals that she used to be lead dancer at Walter Burns' nightclub, and is shown in flashback to have been very attractive.
18	* PyroManiac: Mallory Cartwright admits to being 'careless with matches' and has a habit of setting fire to things; including, at the end of the movie, a police car.
19	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The bedbound Walter Burns is murdered by someone poisoning his coffee.
20	* TapOnTheHead: The killer raps Dr. Ordway over the head with a chain, knocking him out and causing him to drop his lantern. This, in turn, sets fire to the nightclub.
21	* TrickedToDeath: The bedbound Walter Burns is murdered by someone poisoning his coffee.
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