Earl Derr Biggers
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"Fifty Candles" by Earl Derr Biggers. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The House Without a Key
Enter Charlie Chan!
The House Without A Key is the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries. Atmospheric and entertaining, Biggers shows you a side of Hawaii that few will ever see.
John Quincy Winterslip travels from Boston to convince his aunt Minerva to end her extended vacation and come home. Nothing in his upper-class background could have prepared him for what he finds in Hawaii. Despite being engaged, Winterslip falls under the spell of the islands and meets an attractive young woman with whom he quickly falls in love. Almost immediately, he finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery. Nothing about his life will ever be the same.
The Charlie Chan MEGAPACK ®
When Earl Derr Biggers created Chinese detective Charlie Chan, he had no idea he had created a media sensation. Novels, movies, TV series, radio programs, comic books—Charlie spawned a whole industry. Now all 6 novels are collected in one ebook, along with 16 more novels and short stories by Biggers (many of them mysteries). In this volume are: <p> THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY<BR> THE CHINESE PARROT<BR> BEHIND THAT CURTAIN<BR> THE BLACK CAMEL<BR> CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON<BR> KEEPER OF THE KEYS<BR> THE AGONY COLUMN<BR> SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE<BR> MOONLIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS<BR> SELLING MISS MINERVA<BR> THE HEART OF THE LOAF<BR> POSSESSIONS<BR> THE DOLLAR CHASERS<BR> IDLE HANDS<BR> THE GIRL WHO PAID DIVIDENDS<BR> A LETTER TO AUSTRALIA<BR> NINA AND THE BLEMISH<BR> BROADWAY BROKE<BR> THE EBONY STICK<BR> FIFTY CANDLES<BR> LOVE INSURANCE<BR> INSIDE THE LINES <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see many more entries in this series, covering westerns, mysteries, science fiction, and much, much more!
Fifty Candles (Expanded Edition)
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 Chan novels. Fifty Candles – first published just two years after that 1919 vacation – shows how Hawaii, China, and murder had already begun to come together in Biggers' imagination. The story starts in a courthouse in Honolulu, moves to China, then to fog-shrouded San Francisco. Many of the elements used in the Charlie Chan series are present: Chinese characters (both sinister and sympathetic), the Honolulu legal system, a shrewd detective (in this case, the lawyer Mark Drew rather than a policemen), and a baffling murder complete with red herrings and plenty of suspects. This special edition includes John Betancourt's introduction from the 2001 paperback edition, plus a bonus short story, «The Way to the Island» – a long-lost Earl Derr Biggers tale!
Charlie Chan Carries On
"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 Thirteen] with a different cast. The 1940 film, «Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise,» starring Sidney Toler, Oland's successor in the role of Charlie Chan, was also based on the same novel, but with a different script.)
The Agony Column
The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers. Motion picture The Second floor mystery, made in 1930 libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
