"The man in this portrait is dead. Who killed him? Was it his bereaved widow? The family doctor? The business partner? The mysterious priest? The Oriental visitor? Or was it someone else? Match wits with Ellery Queen and see if you can guess who done it!
This episode contains examples of:
- Insurance Fraud: Ultimately turns out to be a case of this.
- The Killer Was Left-Handed: Ellery says this after surveying the crime scene.
- Never Suicide Averted—the death is revealed to be a suicide made to look like a murder.
- Suicide, Not Murder: What the death turns out to be. The victim had a terminal illness, and his wife had begun seeing another man. He got revenge by divesting himself of all his assets so she wouldn't inherit anything, then committed suicide so she couldn't collect his life insurance. The wife and her lover, upon discovering the body, altered the scene to look like a murder.
