خلاصه داستان : چارلی چان بر روی مسموم سازی ای آشکار در عمارتی رازآلود در بیابان موهاوی تحقیق می کند.

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...

خلاصه داستان : یک نقشه گنج که به چهار قسمت تقسیم شده، روح یک دزد دریایی اعدام شده، یک طوطی سخنگو و یک کشتی پر از نخود سیاه، جست و جوی "چارلی" برای پیدا کردن یک قاتل در کشتی ای پهلو گرفته را پیچیده می کند.

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.

خلاصه داستان : دون گالیکو استاد طراحی توهم‌های جادویی است که توسط رئیسش اورموند به شعبده‌بازی معروف فروخته می‌شود. او همچین استاد تغییر چهره نیز هست.

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.