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 This is the classic novel in which Charlie Chan makes his debut as Inspector of the Honolulu Police Department. Earl Derr Biggers brings Honolulu to life with deft descriptions of the landscape and of its hybrid ethnic communities. With the creation of Detective Chan, Biggers also shatters stereotypes and is ahead of his time in highlighting the positive aspects of Chinese-Hawaiian culture, just as his skillful rendering of San Francisco is noteworthy of its modernity and keen sense of place.  "Besides being fun books to read, Academy Chicago does a great job with the covers and format. They're lovely books to hold in your hand. Comments, Kindle folks? Not sure it's the same." --Janet Rudolph, Mystery Readers Journal
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This is the second mystery in the series featuring the amazing Charlie Chan, Detective-Sergeant of the Honolulu Police, originally published in 1926. Here Chan travels across the Pacific Ocean by steamer to San Francisco to assist his friend and former employer, the glamorous Madame Sally Jordan, who is falling on hard times. Jordan is forced to sell a valuable string of pearls to an eccentric millionaire, P.J. Madden, and has entrusted Chan, her old houseboy from the time of the monarchy, to bring them over safely from Hawaii. "It takes a special kind of wit to resurrect Charlie Chan, as Academy Chicago has done...ingenious puzzle mysteries written by Earl Derr Biggers in the 1920s." --New York Times Book Review
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In the third mystery of the series, Charlie Chan finds himself back in San Francisco. Sir Frederic Bruce, an inspector from Scotland Yard, appears on the scene to investigate a fifteen-year-old murder whose most compelling clue is a pair of Chinese slippers. Things take a nasty turn at a dinner party to which a number of important and mysterious guests are invited. Sir Frederic himself is found murdered in a twelfth-floor office; he too was last seen wearing a pair of Chinese slippers, which now have disappeared. It is up to Chan to solve this new case, and in the process, the older murder. "Reading these books is a definite pleasure. Author Biggers is a smooth strategist, clever plotter and keen observer, and the novels give the same escapist tingle as the best of Agatha Christie." --Burl Burlingame, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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"Death is the black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate," Charlie Chan tells the guests of the unfortunate Shelah Fane, a glamorous Hollywood movie star who has been murdered while on location beachside in Honolulu. In the fourth novel in the series, the detective confronts the most perplexing case of his long and illustrious career. Chan is aided by a mysterious fortune teller named Tarneverro the Great, who has been summoned to Honolulu by Miss Fane. "...the early Chan novels combine solid entertainment value with a quest...to portray both Hawaii's culture and Asian Americans' place within said culture in a positive light." --Sarah Wienman, Los Angeles Times
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In this fifth installment of the classic series of mysteries featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, readers are confronted by a mystery so confounding by twists and turns that it can only take Inspector Chan to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. A series of baffling murders plague an elite group of American travelers as they embark on an around-the-world tour, starting at the fashionable Broome's Hotel in London in 1930. "These are great looking books...great fun to read. It's really nice to see them back in print." --Crimespree Magazine
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In the final installment of the classic series of mysteries featuring Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, we find the diminutive Chinese American detective in Lake Tahoe. His fame as a brilliant solver of the most perplexing murder cases has spread throughout the world and he has been summoned to investigate the matter of a long-missing child. But again, he finds himself embroiled in another murder inquiry; this time in the shooting death of a glamorous opera singer, which occured during a party Chan himself was present. He solves the case in his usual understated yet spectacular fashion. "[Academy Chicago] introduces readers to these 1920s classics of detective fiction...there's plenty of action to keep you turning pages." --Contra Costa Times |
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