CHICK CARTER, DETECTIVE (1946)--a colorized 15-chapter serial in one video

Detective Chick Carter. son of Nick Carter; finds himself in a complex case when Sherry Martin, a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney, the owner of the nightclub. Joe planned the theft in order to pay a debt to Nick Pollo with the $100,000 insurance money he would collect. Sherry double-crossed Joe by wearing an imitation one, while she threw the real one, hidden in a cotton snowball, to Nick during the floor show. But Spud Warner, a newspaper photographer, there with newspaper reporter Rusty Farrell, takes a snowball from her basket and Nick receives an empty one. The Blue Diamond disappears. Aided by a private investigator, Ellen Dale, Chick finds himself pitted against the criminals searching for the missing Blue Diamond...