Fast Company is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice as married rare-book dealers who try to solve a murder case.

To avoid confusion with a 1953 MGM film of the same title, Fast Company was retitled Rare Book Murder for television.

The couple also tries to help Ned Morgan, recently released from prison, find a job; they do not believe he was guilty of the theft of books from dealer Otto Brockler.

He warns Eli that Joel is snooping around, but reluctantly agrees to take another shipment of fake first editions created by Sid Wheeler for $5000.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Frank S. Nugent called Fast Company "a brash and amusing detective story of the lighthearted, or 'Thin Man,' school" and concluded: "Although we can't quite accept Mr. Mayer's marquee estimate, 'the year's best murder mystery,' we'll meet him part way.

"[2] Critic Whitney Williams of the Hollywood Citizen-News wrote: "There is a tempo about 'Fast Company' that swings the spectator along to happy nonchalance.

The mystery is so well worked out that never once do you suspect the murderer until the last few feet of film, and in attaining this rare estate the production never permits popular interest to be diverted.