[3] At his country estate, Arthur Hilton is regaling his dinner guests with his exploits as a police officer decades earlier in Africa.

He keys in a case where he had to track down a gang of three men who were suspected of a series of murders.

Initially, their plot seems successful, as the local constables who arrive to investigate the incident buy into the suicide scenario.

(Cast list as per AFI and BFI databases)[1][2] Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times gave the film a lukewarm review, praising several of the players, particularly Smith and Ward, while questioning the abilities of some of the other actors, such as Loraine.

He felt the direction was uneven, stating the overall production, "may not be endowed with imaginative direction, but, because of the author's intriguing story and C. Aubrey Smith's excellent performance, it succeeds in being an entertaining study of a cool, calculating murderer".