A gumshoe detective, with the aid of mystery novels’ most famous fictitious sleuths, must solve his own murder to gain a second chance at life and save New York from a diabolical Nazi plot. Tagline: His death was his greatest case.

SYNOPSIS:

The Man Who Solved Himself is a supernatural film noir dramedy, a genre bending homage to the existential angst of its protagonist. Raymond Chandler Jr., son of renowned mystery writer Raymond Chandler, is a gumshoe detective stuck in a dead end career stalking cheating spouses and insurance scammers, who finds himself immersed into a supernatural crime scene when he is tossed out his 13th floor office building in New York by an unknown assassin. Chandler falls into an alternate reality inhabited by history’s most famous fictitious detectives, including Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes and Poe’s Auguste Dupin, who help him solve the mystery of his own death which he must unravel in order to regain his second chance at life, find his lost love & stop an insidious Nazi plot. The ghost detectives can only offer metaphors, providing clues, not answers, forcing Chandler to heighten his own deductive skills in order to find his unknown killer (s). The afterlife has one rule - Chandler, who returns to life to solve the riddle of his death cannot speak to any living person about his predicament, forcing his reliance on imaginary literary creations.

The main plot involves three Nazi scientists developing the Uranprojekt (Hitler’s secret nuclear program) to create the world’s first miniature atomic bomb. The Nazis are under the control of the Illuminati, a secret society composed of the world’s most powerful men devoted to world domination who plan to blow up New York and take control of the global economy. Chandler’s lover, a brilliant Jewish physicist captured during the invasion of Poland, is forced to help the Nazis or risk losing her daughter who is being held captive.

Set against the backdrop of a rain soaked post WW II New York, The Man Who Solved Himself is a dark, humorous ode to the existential film noir cinema of the 40’s - full of femme fatales, boozy jazz joints, murder, mayhem and more twists and turns than Mulholland Drive.

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