Hidden Homicide is a 1959 British 'B'[1] mystery film directed by Tony Young and starring Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan, James Kenney, Bruce Seton, Peter Carver and Danny Green.
[2] It was written by Bill Luckwell and Young, based on the 1951 novel Death at Shinglestrand by Paul Capon.
[3][4] Writer Michael Cornforth wakes up in a strange house in the countryside – fully clothed and holding a gun.
On investigating, he discovers his cousin's dead body in the kitchen, and soon finds himself accused of murder.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "After an intriguing start, this romantic 'whodunnit' collapses under clumsy development, involving a strained exercise in female impersonation from James Kenney and a particularly far-fetched dénouement.