Larceny in Her Heart is a 1946 American crime film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Raymond L. Schrock. The film stars Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Ralph Dunn, Paul Bryar, Charles C. Wilson, Douglas Fowley and Gordon Richards. It was released on July 10, 1946, by Producers Releasing Corporation.
Civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen, but Shayne finds himself in the frame when he later discovers the girl dead in his office/apartment. During the investigation he finds out that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum and that the dead girl was a ringer, all in order to obtain Helen's inheritance money before her 21st birthday.