The French Minister for Naval Affairs, Henri Beauvais, a friend of Marie's grandmother, Madame Cecile Roget, and her younger sister Camille, threatens to take Gobelin off the case.

Cecile Roget asks Dupin to escort Camille to a party as she fears her granddaughter shall be murdered there.

Gobelin learns from Scotland Yard that the first dead body was that of Marcel's English wife, who had recently come to Paris to find her husband.

Despite promotional material stating "Who is the Phantom Mangler of Paris" suggesting a Jack the Ripper type of character, the authors of the book Universal Horrors stated the fim is "another instance of a slick Universal mystery dressed up in eratz "chiller" trappins to attract the horror trade.

[1] Screenwriter Michel Jacoby updated the setting of the original story to 1889 and changed the profession of Marie Roget from a shopgirl to a musical comedy star.

[5] In the fim, the song she sings "Mama Dit Moi" is mouthed by Montez but sung by vocalist Dorothy Triden.

"[8] Archer Winsten of The New York Post stated that despite a "better than average cast" there "has been no original thought expanded on lines and direction" opining that the film was a "routine quickie.

"[9] Kate Cameron of The New York Daily News gave the film two and a half stars, finding that "with a little more care spent on the script to clear up the reasons for the second murder and with a tighter hand on the directorial reins to keep the mystery running smoothly and suspensefully though this film, this story of Poe's might have been built into a first class thriller.

But judged strictly for what it does deliver - 60 minutes of adventuresome sleuthing, favoured with mystery and mild horror embellishments - it's a good example Universal's B-unit working at peak efficiency.