Mr. Wong, Detective
"Thousands asked to see Collier's Magazine famous detective on the screen... here he is!"
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Mr. Wong, Detective
"Thousands asked to see Collier's Magazine famous detective on the screen... here he is!"
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
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Boris Karloff
James Lee Wong
Grant Withers
Police Capt. Sam Street
Maxine Jennings
Myra Ross
Evelyn Brent
Olga Petroff / Countess Dubois / Sophie Dome
George Lloyd
Devlin
Lucien Prival
Anton Mohl
John St. Polis
Carl Roemer
William Gould
Theodore Meisle
Hooper Atchley
Christian Wilk
John Hamilton
Simon Dayton
Wilbur Mack
Russell
Lee Tung Foo
Tchin
