- Charlie Chan (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
This is a mystery story set in the South California desert. Charlie Chan, the Chinese detective from Honolulu, is entrusted with the safe delivery of a string of pearls to a millionaire's isolated desert ranch.
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Earl Derr Biggers
- First published
- 1926
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Fiction House Press, Standard Ebooks, Ulverscroft
- Editions
- 114
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798460649990
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