I Love Trouble (1948 film)

I Love Trouble 1948 is a film noir written by Roy Huggins from his first novel The Double Take, directed by S. Sylvan Simon, and starring Franchot Tone as Stuart Bailey. The character of Stuart Bailey was later portrayed by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in the television series 77 Sunset Strip.

Norma Shannon shows up, looking for her sister Jane, but when Bailey shows her a photograph of the missing woman, Norma says its not her. Bailey learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girlfriend to enter college after she stole 40,000 from the club where she worked, owned by a man named Keller.The detective eventually learns that Johnston had killed his wife when he had himself discovered her past, in order to avoid a scandal, and that he had hired the detective in order to frame him for the killing. ........

Source: Wikipedia