Over My Dead Body (1942)

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story While visiting his wife Mary Beth Hughes at the office where she works Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker Struck with a brilliant notion Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man certain that hell be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story