The Detective

The Detective — Plot

Ho Pui-lan was the secretary of the writer Wu Him, but she died suddenly at home. Ho's mother commissioned private detective Chan Kin-chau to investigate and found out that Pui-lan and Him were having an extra-marital affair, and also discovered that the contents of Him's fiction were similar to the contents of Pui-lan's suicide note. When Kin-chau finds out that the contents of Him's fiction are similar to the contents of Pui-lan's suicide note, he and Pei Lan's sister Yuk-lan reenact the murder case, and Him is stimulated and hallucinated to reveal the truth of the murder...

• Release date
• May 4, 1966
• Runtime
• 101 min
• Genres
• Mystery
• Director
• Tso Kea

The Detective — Cast

Patrick Tse Yin Chan Kin-chau Chow Chung Ng Ying-lin

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Chan Tsai-Chung Ho Yuk-lan Wong Wai Police Sergeant/ Cheung Yu-shing Shih Kien Wu Him Helena Law Lan Mrs Wu Seung-Goon Yuk Ho Pui-lan Ai Tong-Kua Chan Kin-chau's assistant/ Fuk the Shortie