- Fiction, Charlie Chan (Fictitious character), Police, Honolulu (Hawaii)
This book is a murder mystery set in San Francisco. Charlie Chan the Chinese detective, on his way home to Honolulu, is persuaded to help with the investigation of the murder of a retired Scotland Yard commissioner. Sir Frederic has been re-investigating some old unsolved cases that have haunted him: a murder in London and the disappearance of a young woman in India. Charlie Chan suspects that one of these cases holds the clue to his murder.
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Earl Derr Biggers
- First published
- 1928
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- Wildside Press, LLC, Harrap, Independently Published
- Editions
- 94
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781092458764
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