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(0)Earl Derr Biggers
Author
Series
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Young John Quincy Winterslip, a proper Bostonian, helps Charlie Chan, the noted Chinese detective, find out who murdered genial old Dan Winterslip after entering his Waikiki Beach home without a key."--Novelist.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1913
Language
English
Description
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913) is a mystery novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Although he is widely known as the author of a bestselling series of novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, Biggers worked for years as a struggling mystery writer with moderate success. Seven Keys to Baldpate is one of his most acclaimed works of fiction from that period in his career, due in no small part to George M. Cohan's celebrated stage adaptation of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Pub. Date
2010, ©1932
Language
English
Description
It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. The handsome young son of the jeweller is assigned to shepherd the transfer of the pearls to the financier's vacation home in a desert area of California. Because of his long association with the owner...
Author
Series
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Pub. Date
©1932, 2009
Language
English
Description
The inimitable Charle Chan of the Honolulu Police follows a trail of murder that leads from the London slaying of a Detroit automobile tycoon, to the French Riviera, Calcutta, San Remo, Yokohama, and Hawaii. -- Novelist.
Author
Series
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Charlie Chan's reputation for solving the most perplexing murder cases has spread far beyond Honolulu. Having been summoned to Lake Tahoe to investigate the matter of a long-missing child, he finds himself also investigating the murder of a glamorous opera singer.
Author
Series
Charlie Chan mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting collection of five of the most famous crime novels of the 1920s, presenting anew some of the most admired authors of the era... Each of the five novels included is presented in its original published form, with extensive historical and cultural annotations and illustrations..." --
12) The jade mask
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When an eccentric scientist is murdered, the government sends in Charlie Chan to find a missing top secret formula and catch a killer, using one important clue: a broken piece of a jade mask