"Her Last Adventure" (1952).

Based on the 1925 story of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes (The Lodger, etc.), this 19 August 1952 episode of Suspense features a wealthy bride beginning to wonder about the fate of her husband's prior fiance. Costars are Arlene Francis and Lloyd Bridges. Steve Haste states in Criminal Sentences that the Patrick Mahon case is the basis for the story; the married Mahon killed his pregnant girlfriend Emily Kaye in 1924 and was hanged.

Note that there is a new collection of Lowndes's short stories, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, that is edited by past Clues contributor Elyssa Warkentin and is published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Trapped (1949).

More from the Bridges family: In Trapped (directed by Soylent Green's Richard Fleischer), the Treasury enlists counterfeiter Lloyd Bridges in its efforts to smash a counterfeiting ring.

Hammett's Secret Agent X-9 (1945).

Lloyd Bridges teams up with other secret agents to thwart Nazi plans for a synthetic fuel in this film adaptation of the comic strip by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond.

The Limping Man (1953).

In The Limping Man, a World War II veteran (Lloyd Bridges) encounters spies in postwar London.

75 years ago today: Dashiell Hammett and Secret Agent X-9.

Among the neat photos in the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection is this one of Dashiell Hammett toasting the creation of his comic strip Secret Agent X-9 on February 5, 1934, with co-creator Alex Raymond, Rube Goldberg, Chic Young (the creator of Blondie), and others.

About the photo: DVD of Secret Agent X-9 (1945), starring Lloyd Bridges and Keye Luke.