Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia.
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first.
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor.
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Charlie Chan in Reno 1938
Keine Beschreibung. Krimi. Charlie Chan in Reno Sidney Toler 1938 ENG.
Charlie Chan in Reno Sidney Toler 1938 ENG
Charlie Chan in Reno Sidney Toler 1938 ENG.
Cleveland Classic Cinema - Charlie Chan in Reno
A very entertaining movie starring Sydney Toler as the second incarnation of Chan. Slim Summerville contributes mightily to the entertainment value of this film ...
Charlie Chan in Reno - Sidney Toler - 1938 - ENG
2jqh7. Sidney Tolers first outing as the Detective from Honolulu. With Charlie Chan distracted by the imminent birth of his first grandchild young Tommy Chan ...
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