Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Glenda Farrell Barton MacLane Tom Kennedy Henry O'Neill Patric Knowles James Stephenson Janet Shaw Frank Shannon George Guhl Anderson Lawler Richard Bond Eddy Chandler Alice Connors Joe Cunningham Bud Geary Sol Gorss Roger Gray John Harron Gordon Hart Charles H. Hickman Stuart Holmes Tetsu Komai Eddie Lee Vera Lewis Frank Mayo Bruce Mitchell Edmund Mortimer Jack Mower Paul Panzer Lee Phelps Fred Rapport John J. Richardson John Ridgely Cliff Saum Leo White Eric Wilton Jack Wise Beal Wong Victor Sen Yung
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