title: The Mandarin Mystery
text: # The Mandarin Mystery
  
  The Mandarin Mystery is a 1936 American mystery crime film directed by Ralph Staub, loosely based on The Chinese Orange Mystery, a novel featuring detective character Ellery Queen.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, a mystery writer and amateur detective
  * Charlotte Henry as Josephine Temple
  * Rita La Roy as Martha Kirk
  * Wade Boteler as Inspector Richard Queen, A police inspector, Ellery's father.
  * Franklin Pangborn as Mellish, the hotel manager
  * George Irving as Dr. Alexander Kirk
  * Kay Hughes as Irene Kirk
  * William Newell as Detective Guffy
  * George Walcott as Donald Trent
  * Edwin Stanley as Howard Bronson
  * Edgar Allen as Detective
  * Bert Roach
  * Richard Beach as Reporter
  * Monte Vandergrift as Detective
  * Grace Durkin as Girl on Street Corner
  * Mary Russell as Girl on Street Corner
  * Mary Bovard as Girl At Cocktail Bar
  * June Johnson as Girl At Cocktail Bar
  
  ## Soundtrack
  
  No soundtrack album was created
  
  