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Charlie Chan, the imperturbably ingenious detective with impressive powers of deduction, solves five bizarre mysteries..../ Charlie Chan: Five Complete Novels: The House Without a Key; The Chinese Parrot; Behind That Curtain; The Black Camel; Keeper of the Keys / Curtains Black
Charlie Chan: Five Complete Novels: The House Without a Key; The Chinese Parrot; Behind That Curtain; The Black Camel; Keeper of the Keys
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These popular novels from the 20s and 30s rarely come to mind when habitancy think of Charlie Chan. Naturally, they think of the movies. But most readers would agree that the novels are more exciting, bursting as they are with a sense of wonder and vitality. The author seems never to have gotten over the sense of marvel he experienced on first advent west, and then to Hawaii. And for fans of Charlie himself, there is more of him (and his family) in the novels than in the films--though little of the sidekick comic son. The films draw on exotic settings; the novels do too, but confine themselves to Hawaii, San Francisco and the rural wild west. To read them is to get a taste of what it might have been like to know Honolulu when it was still small and parochial, or San Francisco when it was just maturing from its brawling youth. Biggers has other entertaining novels set in the eastern Us, notably "Love Insurance" in St. Augustine, Fl; and they are quite good as popular entertainment goes. But there is nothing in his work to match these five novels in which one can feel new worlds opening up for the writer. A pity he did not live to write more.
