the monogram chan and apart from fall production value and be also mark by more and more action scene with or without cliffhanger music and less on the explanatory dialogue so necessary with the fox . with the action come more non sequiteurs or simply incongruous scene in this one take tommy chan be beat to a pulp before his respect father calm eye . great stuff for teenager in 1944 but surely something of which the charlie we know should have be thoroughly ashamed . rich amateur chess player murder six month previously and at the time to the utter bafflement of the police charlie have less than two day to research the case and solve it . and do he bring the rather impotent detective and the daughter of the murdered man together and and give the detective a promotion for do nothing . i ain not say . the climax in the fun two corridor cupboard and room bring a baddie wild west hideout suspiciously to mind and but what the heck . well make ( for monogram ) and enjoyable entry in the series .