Thirteen years after hosting a mysterious dinner party where one guest failed to arrive, a wealthy man dies. His will contains a bizarre provision: his entire fortune is left to the unknown “thirteenth guest” from that fateful night.
To solve the puzzle of the heir’s identity, the original twelve guests are gathered once more in the now-creepy, abandoned family home. But the reunion turns deadly when the attendees begin to be murdered one by one, their bodies discovered seated in the exact same chairs they occupied thirteen years earlier. A detective and a plucky reporter must race against time to solve the original mystery and unmask the killer before everyone is served their just deserts. This classic whodunnit makes The Thirteenth Guest a suspenseful gem of pre-Code cinema.
