Earl Derr Biggers

The first book in the mystery series that served as the basis for the classic films-inspired by a real-life Chinese-Hawaiian police detective. A young man has traveled from Boston all the way to Hawaii to try to convince his aunt to return to their wealthy New England family. Instead, he too finds himself seduced by the islands. But when his aunt is murdered, a shadow falls over the sunny Pacific paradise. Set against the fascinating backdrop of...

Kuka halusi puhuvan papukaijan hengiltä – ja miksi? Nuori kalifornialainen Bob Eden on vailla suuntaa elämälleen. Kun hänen isänsä, jalokiviliikkeen omistaja, lupaa välittää mittaamattoman arvokkaan helminauhan sen uudelle omistajalle, Eden saa tehtäväkseen avustaa korun kuljetuksessa Havaijilta Kalifornian aavikolle. Eden suuntaa aavikon pikkukaupunkiin seuranaan terävä-älyinen havaijilaisetsivä, Charlie Chan, ja huomaa pian tempautuneensa...

Hoping for peace and quiet, a novelist checks in to a secluded hotel and becomes part of a noisy conspiracy in this classic mystery from the creator of Charlie Chan After years of churning out potboilers, novelist Billy Magee decides that he needs just two months of solitude to produce a work of true literary merit. New York is too crowded with distractions, so he embarks on a journey to the loneliest place he knows: a rambling summer resort that...

"Charlie Chan Carries On" -- the 1931 Fox motion picture starring Warner Oland as Chan -- is now considered a "lost" film (the original film materials were destroyed in a vault fire.) Unless a copy surfaces in some remote corner of the world, as happened with "Charlie Chan in Paris," this original screenplay is the closest Chan fans will come to seeing the original film. (There is also a Portuguese-language version called "Eran Trece" [There Were...

From the creator of Charlie Chan! Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what Americans would call the "Personals").

Earl Derr Biggers' mystery ''The Black Camel'' was first published in 1929. The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with the three-year-old murder of another Hollywood actor and also connected with an enigmatic psychic named Tarneverro. Through the confusion of alibis, false clues, and bizarre characters,...

Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) is best remembered as the creator of Chinese detective Charlie Chan. Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers' 1925 novel, "The House Without a Key," and there quickly followed five more Charlie...

Inspector Duff works with the Scotland Yard. He is called in to investigate a mysterious murder that occurred at a famous local London hotel. A deaf old man, traveling on pleasure trip from America with his daughter and granddaughter, has been murdered during the night. At first, the investigation seems to be pointing towards Doctor Lofton, the leader of the tour group, as the culprit. Much to the chagrin of the other travelers in the group, they...

Ein Todesfall in einem alten Londoner Hotel bildet den Ausgangspunkt einer ganzen Mordserie: Ein Unbekannter dezimiert nach und nach die Teilnehmer einer amerikanischen Reisegesellschaft. Inspektor Hayley von Scotland Yard nimmt sich des Falles an. Doch schon bald muss er erkennen, dass er dem gerissenen Verbrecher, den er unter den Teilnehmern der Reise vermutet, nicht gewachsen ist. Als die Weltreisenden endlich Honolulu erreichen, eskalieren die...

Charlie Chan, visiting San Francisco to make a speech, finds himself swept into one of his most puzzling -- and dangerous -- cases! A cult known as the Golden Horde is running a spiritual retreat, helping the disturbed and the depressed find inner peace. Benny Chan, who worked for the Golden Horde, is dead ... but the priceless treasure he carried has been recovered. Benny's sister is searching for the truth, and Chan agrees to help her. Ancient scrolls,...