Charlie Chan #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeCharlie Chan investigates a murder case involving a missing witness while working to prevent an attack on the first child of Chan's family, which someone plots to carry out in-house. Lieutenant Morrow assists in the investigation and discovers a crucial clue at an old well on the countryside, where a chair buried underground for twenty years is unearthed. The issue also features a "Keri Krane" story in which the chief of the Phoenix Detective Agency, motivated by her sister's death in the line of duty, hires skilled private detectives and specializes in solving murders.
Inspector Chan and his son venture into the Canadian logging camps pursuing a smuggling ring dealing in contraband silk, but when Number One Son spots a young woman performing daring stunts on river logs, he becomes entranced—just as a tragic accident throws them both into danger. As Charlie Chan investigates the lumber operations, his son must navigate his newfound romance while the detective closes in on the mystery of how the silk is crossing the border.
When a fortune hunter named Justin K. Hall discovers a fortune in diamonds salvaged from a sunken ship, he believes his troubles are over—but his greed sets him on a deadly course that brings the attention of Inspector Chan. A sealed room, an impossible murder, and a killer who operates by mysterious means test Chan's legendary deductive powers in this tale of ill-gotten wealth and cold-blooded betrayal. Only the canny inspector can untangle how death found its mark in a locked chamber and reveal the phantom killer's true identity.
When a young assistant working to catch stickup artists on a desert trail gets swept up in a shootout between bandits and the local sheriff, he discovers the lawman isn't what he seems. Hilly Billy must use his wits to survive a deadly double-cross and expose corruption in Sleepy Hollow.
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Reprinted in Gwandanaland Comics #2483-A (2019)
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