Thomas P. Manning, businessman and chess expert, mysteriously shot in a locked room, dies clutching some chess pieces. Police are baffled, and finally abandon the case. Six months later, victim's daughter Leah Manning, stung by a scurrilous book about the case, enlists the aid of Charlie Chan and Number 3 Son. Additional murders follow, leading to a climactic confrontation in a seemingly deserted "Fun House."
Anthony Warde, Benson Fong, Betty Blythe, Cy Kendall, Dewey Robinson, Fred Aldrich, George Chandler, I Stanford Jolley, Ian Keith, Jack Norton, Joan Woodbury, John Davidson, Luke Chan, Mantan Moreland, Sam Flint, Sidney Toler, Terry Frost, Weldon Heyburn
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
