Theodore's World

At a press conference, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed MLB, President Biden, and HR1, the For the People Act, a Democratic-led election reform bill that has passed the House and is currently in the Senate.

Mary Whitman, an old friend of Charlie’s in Reno for a divorce, finds herself accused of murdering the woman her husband planned to marry after the decree became final.

Thomas P. Manning, businessman and chess expert mysteriously shot in a locked room, dies clutching some chess pieces. Police are baffled, and finally abandon the case. Six months later, victim’s daughter Leah Manning, stung by a scurrilous book about the case, enlists the aid of Charlie Chan and Number 3 Son. Additional murders follow, leading to a climactic confrontation in a seemingly deserted “Fun House.”

Murder Over New York directed by Harry Lachman in 1940, starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Shemp Howard plays “Shorty McCoy” in an uncredited appearance.
On a flight to New York for an annual police convention, Chan encounters an old friend, Hugh Drake, now a member of military intelligence trying to track down a sabotage ringbehind the crash of a bomber and its pilots the day before, led by a Paul Narvo.