Charlie Chan #4

Bound for Rio, Charlie Chan finds himself drawn into a dangerous affair when a young heiress brings word of a sinister plot aboard ship—her father's nurse and the ship's doctor are scheming to claim his fortune. When Chan's son stumbles upon evidence of their treachery during a shipboard celebration, he becomes a target himself, forcing the detective to uncover the conspiracy before the conspirators silence him for good.

When model Jean Larue delays her Hollywood departure to pose one final time for her mentor, photographer Pappy Bradley, a blinding flash in his studio sends her away with a splitting headache—and hours later, she's found dead. With both Bradley and talent scout Nick Travis under suspicion, Charlie Chan must untangle the conflicting stories and a crucial clue from the autopsy to expose the real killer in "The Model Murder Case!"

When an ambitious astronomer's murder throws a wrench into a race to discover a mysterious new planet, Inspector Charlie Chan finds himself drawn to a mountain-top observatory to investigate a crime that reaches across continents. With his son in tow, Chan must unravel the deadly conspiracy behind the deaths of two rival scientists before the killer strikes again at the very heart of astronomical discovery. A clever mystery wrapped around the competition to spot Planet "X"—will Chan solve it before another researcher falls victim to fame-hungry ambition?