Blind Spot is a 1947 American mystery thriller film noir directed by Robert Gordon and starring Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, and Steven Geray.

Plot

In New York City, Jeffrey Andrews is a disheveled, alcoholic novelist, living in a cluttered apartment. He leaves his apartment intoxicated to confront his publisher Henry Small, to settle a pay dispute. At Small's office, Andrews barges past secretary Evelyn Green to meet with Small, who has been conferring with best-selling mystery novelist Lloyd Harrison. Declining to pay Andrews more money, Small suggests that Andrews should write more marketable books in contrast to Harrison, who admires Andrews' psychological novels. Andrews declines, as he views mysteries as formulaic, relying on red herrings and other devices. Harrison counters that the solutions must be completely logical.