Similar to the Blackie Ryan locked room murder cases by Andrew Greely.

There is a better copy on Netflix

Ebert: Yes, but it's not free :)

Another William Powell Thin-A-Like, Star of Midnight (1935) where he is an urbane witty bon vivant lawyer that all New York society turns to to solve mysteries, with Ginger Rodgers as his banter buddy. It's a bit loose limbed compared to The Thin Man, and there's hardly a shot without a cocktail in it (this would make a deadly drinking game), but great fun all the same.

I only came upon it as I was researching film names with the word "Star" to use for Kennel Club names for a litter of puppies. Unfortunately it's only on DVD in Spain and Italy, but I think you might find a streaming version.

For reasons I can't begin to guess, I suddenly have access to both Twitter and Facebook - at least, to yours, anyway.

So it is that I just saw your comment that The Kennel Murder Case is "sort of a dry run for The Thin Man".

I always love it when you bluff a review.

A bit of history here:
Philo Vance, the character William Powell plays here - for the fourth time - was one of the first American detective characters to achieve bestseller status in this country. Up until his appearance, the USA was seen as lagging behind the British in such characters.
But as popular as Vance was in the '20s and early '30s, the public tired of him pretty quickly; he was an obnoxious know-it-all and a full-of-himself jackass. Ogden Nash summed him up thusly:
Philo Vance
Needs a kick in the pance.
William Powell concurred in this judgment, and made it clear that after Kennel, he wanted no more of Philo Vance.
When he was offered The Thin Man, Powell agreed to take it on only if Nick Charles could be as much Vance's opposite as possible. Even at that, Thin Man was not thought of as series material; Dashiell Hammett didn't think so - he only wrote the one story (the title refers not to Nick Charles but to the murder victim). And the reason that the Nick-&-Nora pictures were spaced so far apart was because Powell and Myrna Loy required considerable persuasion by MGM (read: lots more money) to do new ones.
In the meantime, several other studios took swats at Philo Vance; at least a half-dozen actors tried and failed to make the character catch on. Today nobody even remembers Philo Vance - or for that matter even Ogden Nash's poetic putdown.
On the other hand, The Thin Man series lives on - and for good reason.

End of history lesson.
(And apologies for showing off; sometimes I just have to get it out of my system.)