The Thirteenth Chair

Who Killed Spencer Lee?

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true 'bounder' Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.

Direction

Tod Browning

Screenplay

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Bayard Veiller

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Elliott J. Clawson

Joseph Farnham