Fred Aldrich

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...

改编自詹姆斯·M·凯恩的小說《Love's Lovely Counterfeit》，一个城市商人在爱上新当选市长的未婚妻时，卷入了有组织犯罪、腐败的城市政治和贪污。