The strange case of murder by magic!
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
suicide
blackmail
nightclub
magic show
challenge
mind reading
police detective
knife throwing
disguise
newspaper reporter
séance
extrasensory perception
spiritualism
propeller airplane
world's fair
magician
mysticism
magician assistant
comical sidekick
charlie chan
phoney spiritualist
pygmy darts
driven to suicide
airplane in storm