The Crime of Doctor Crespi 1935 Dr Crespi has a festering hatred for Dr Stephen Ross, the man who married his ex sweetheart Ross must undergo surgery and Crespi, sensing an opportunity, seizes it Ross appears to die but Crespi has given him a drug that places the victim in a trance like state, but leaves him in possession of his senses Crespi attends the premature burial of his hated colleague Dr John Arnold has his suspicions and calls on Dr Thomas to to help him They exhume the body and find Ross alive, albeit now a terrified, ghostly figure given to stalking the hospital corridors