Plot
Charlie Chan is engaged by an heir to solve a mystery on a boat. Miss Nodbury seeks a pirate treasure on Cocos Island, and her ship has recently hosted a museum of pirate lore. For safety, she has split her map into four pieces, which she gave to some of the passengers whom she has invited, but tells no one who they are. When she is given a fright and succumbs to her heart disease, Chan must clear up the mystery while the ship is still at the dock.
Miss Nodbury is the grand-daughter of notorious pirate "The Black Hook", whose ghost supposedly is haunting the ship--and the sight of it was supposedly what killed her. Charlie Chan has arrived to retrieve his No.2 son, who had intended to stow away on the ship for the adventure of it. After being released from a locked coffin, Jimmy wanders into a tough waterfront bar and is lucky to leave in one piece(he is thrown in the water).
All of the passengers were summoned to the ship by mysterious anonymous notes. Movie actor Charles Thursday was hoping to take a quiet honeymoon with his new wife. Bill Lydig,ostensibly a newspaper reporter;is quickly revealed to be an escapee from San Quentin. And psychiatrist Anne Bonney is doing a poor job of keeping track of her patient Gene La Farge;a cadaverous-looking mental case. Lydig is found smothered to death below decks---he had picked somebody's pocket for part of the treasure map and t he murderer stole it back. The Captain of the ship refuses to meet his passengers for good reason.He is convinced one of them abandoned him on an island to die years ago and that the bait of the treasure will lure him back.Revenge is heavily on the Captain's mind.
Eventually,the murderer has 3 pieces of the map and Chan the 4th. The killer is caught trying to regain t he fourth piece,with the help of The Captain.
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