Charlie Chan Dailies and Sundays 10/30/38 to 11/19/39 #[nn]

When movie star Claire Lamont reaches out to Charlie Chan for help, he arrives too late—she’s already dead, a victim of cyanide in her glass. With no clear motive and a trail of secrets, Charlie must piece together the truth before another life is lost.

When steel heiress Donna Grant is kidnapped and a chilling ransom demands $500,000 with her dog’s severed head as a grim message, Charlie Chan takes the case. Disguising himself as a cook named Willie Soo, he infiltrates the criminal network while his assistant Kirk Barrow pretends to be the intermediary Berzelius Keeno.

When Charlie, Kirk, and Gina spot a burning ship during a flight to the U.S., they land to help—only to be ambushed by pirates. The real danger lies in the stolen rubies, a fortune in rare pigeon blood gems belonging to the reclusive Doctor Croft, who invites Charlie to his mountain lodge while Kirk recovers. As threatening notes arrive and the jewels vanish, the mystery deepens—what secrets does the lodge hold, and who’s behind the theft?

In "The Wan Ching Case," a tense mystery unfolds as Jo, a determined American woman, uncovers a hidden elevator beneath a seemingly ordinary home—leading her straight to Wan Ching, a man secretly imprisoned in his own residence. With the stakes rising over stolen rifle plans and a war-torn homeland, Jo must unravel the truth before it’s too late.