In the final installment of the classic series of mysteries featuring Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, we find the diminutive Chinese American detective in Lake Tahoe. His fame as a brilliant solver of the most perplexing murder cases has spread throughout the world and he has been summoned to investigate the matter of a long-missing child. But again, he finds himself embroiled in another murder inquiry; this time in the shooting death of a glamorous opera singer, which occured during a party Chan himself was present. He solves the case in his usual understated yet spectacular fashion.