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Director:
Charles Haas Producer:
Sidney Marshall Executive
Producer: Leon Fromkess Writer:
Richard Grey Story: Brock
Williams Associate
Producer: Rudolph C. Flothow Director
of Photography: Kenneth Peach, Sr. Film Coordinator:
Alex Horwitz Film Editor:
Monica Collingwood Sound: Al
Overton Assistant
Director: Ivan Volkman Script Supervisor:
George Rutter Art Director:
William Ross Set Decorator:
Herman N. Schoenbrun Wardrobe:
Einer Bourman
PROBABLE LOCATION: Malibu, California
PROBABLE DATE: Early 1957 (Problematic as Contance Parson noted to Mr. Kramer: "The summer
season is going to start in a few weeks..." However, still possible if we consider Miss Parson's mental state at the
time of her statement.)
DURATION: 2 days
Mr. Kramer,
a wealthy resident of a beach community, calls on Charlie Chan to learn who is trying to kill him. Soon, Chan and Kramer discover that Kramer's wife, Marsha, is missing and a ransom note that is left behind. Constance Parsons, Kramer's personal secretary, is interviewed, expressing her passionate
hatred of Marsha. Andre Patton, an artist who painted a commissioned portrait
of Mrs. Kramer tells Chan that Marsha used to be his model and that it was he who had introduced her to Mr. Kramer. Later, Kramer
finds a package addressed to him in Marsha's handwriting, containing a tape of her pleading for her husband to pay the $50,000
ransom demanded by her abductors. Police analysis of the tape proves it was recorded
at Mr. Kramer's home on his own machine, indicating an inside job. Staking out
the location of the money drop, Chan and Lt. Hess follow the shadowy figure who takes the money and who turns out to be Andre
Patton. At the artist's studio, Marsha’s lifeless body is discovered with
Andre protesting his innocence while admitting to working with her to defraud Mr. Kramer.
Soon, an autopsy report indicates that Marsha had been dead for at least eight hours before her body was found. Chan reasons that Patton would not have killed her only to leave her body in his studio
and not making an escape. CONCLUSION: Later, Chan
returns to speak with Miss Parsons, telling her of his belief that Andre Patton is innocent and that someone else was responsible
for Marsha's demise. Soon, speaking with Mr. Kramer, Chan details his thoughts
on the case, suggesting that Kramer may know the identity of the one who actually killed his wife. Back at the beach house, Kramer finds
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