The Nursemaid Who Disappeared is a 1939 British crime film directed by Arthur B.
Woods and starring Ronald Shiner, Ian Fleming, Arthur Margetson, Peter Coke and Edward Chapman.
[3] The 1956 American 20th Century-Fox film 23 Paces to Baker Street is based on the same novel.
[4] A playwright overhears a gang of men plotting a kidnapping and enlists the assistance of a detective to investigate them.
They soon find that the ring is fronted by a bogus employment agency that sends "clients" to scope potential victims.