Tris Coffin

A large sum of money disappeared from a ship before it was sunk and a shipping magnate is found dead. The detective James Lee Wong investigates.

Doomed to Die -- Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.

When shipping baron Cyrus Wentworth is shot shortly after his flagship ocean liner is robbed and sunk, police captain Bill Street (Grant Withers) accuses Dick Fleming (William Stelling), fiancé of Wentworth's daughter and son of his chief competitor, of the crime. But feisty reporter Roberta Logan (Marjorie Reynolds) and noted Asian sleuth Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) disagree, and set out to free Fleming by bringing the real killer to justice.

In the last of the Mr. Wong series, shipping tycoon Cyrus Wentworth is near suicidal after his flagship ocean liner sinks after a mysterious on-board fire with a great loss of life, and over a million dollars in bonds missing from the ship. Cyrus is shot dead just after he refuses to allow Dick Fleming to marry his daughter, Cynthia. Detective Bill Street is convinced that Dick killed Cyrus, but reporter Bobbie Logan doesn't believe it, and asks detective James Lee Wong (Karloff) to solve the case. Mr. Wong works to clear Dick and follow the trail of the mysterious killer.