Charlie Chan Carries On

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473371569

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Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. “Charlie Chan Carries On” is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series. Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in Behind That Curtain, is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place instead. Earl Derr Biggers was born on 26th August 1884 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Biggers received his further education at Harvard University, where he developed a reputation as a literary rebel, preferring the popular modern authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis to the established figures of classical literature. Following in their footsteps upon graduating, he himself began a career as a popular writer, penning humorous articles and reviews for the Boston Traveler. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. The first Chan story “The House Without a Key” (1925) was published as a serialised story in the Saturday Evening Post and then released as a novel in the same year. Biggers went on to write five more Chan novels and all were licensed for movie adaptations by Fox Films. These films were hugely popular with several different actors taking the lead role of Chan. Eventually; over 40 films were produced featuring the character. Biggers only saw the early on-screen successes of Charlie Chan due to his death at the age of only 48 from a heart attack in April 1933.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438787693

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Charlie Chan Carries on by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Author : Hamilton MacFadden,Philip Klein,Barry Conners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Chan, Charlie (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:8331706

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Charlie Chan Carries on by Hamilton MacFadden,Philip Klein,Barry Conners Pdf

Author : Earl Derr Biggers,Philip Klein,Barry Conners
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434430685

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Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers,Philip Klein,Barry Conners Pdf

"""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.) This addition to the series was penned by Barry Conners and Philip Klein, with added material suggested by Earl Derr Biggers, and based loosely on Biggers' original novel, ""Behind That Curtain."" "

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798681612520

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Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place instead.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066364960

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Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

"Charlie Chan Carries On" 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.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667660585

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The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

The second of the Charlie Chan mysteries bring the Honolulu detective to mainland California, where he investigates crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 1099 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473371668

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The Charlie Chan Collection - Volume II. (The Black Camel - Charlie Chan Carries On - Keeper of the Keys) by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

This collection of early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published between 1929 and 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. “The Charlie Chan Collection - Volume II” contains the final three colourful tales of Charlie Chan. In “The Black Camel” we are introduced to Hollywood star (Shelah Fane), who is stopping in Hawaii after she finished shooting a film on location in Tahiti. She is murdered in the pavilion of her renter house in Waikiki during her stay. In “Charlie Chan Carries On,” Chan takes the place of Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, who is injured whilst pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage. “Keeper of the Keys” is the sixth and final mystery novel in the Charlie Chan series. The setting of the novel is rural California, where Chan has been invited as a houseguest. Earl Derr Biggers was born on 26th August 1884 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Biggers received his further education at Harvard University, where he developed a reputation as a literary rebel, preferring the popular modern authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis to the established figures of classical literature. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. Biggers wrote six Chan novels in total and all were licensed for movie adaptations by Fox Films. These films were hugely popular with several different actors taking the lead role of Chan. They were even a success in China where the appeal of a character from the country being the hero instead of the villain appealed to film-goers. Eventually; over 40 films were produced featuring the character. Biggers only saw the early on-screen successes of Charlie Chan due to his death at the age of only 48 from a heart attack in April 1933.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781406877748

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Keeper of the Keys by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066364946

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The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

"The Black Camel" 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.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798681612551

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Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place instead.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322442638

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The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

The novel, which takes place in the 1920s Hawaii, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished in the 21st century. The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaii for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448213672

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Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Charlie Chan is in San Francisco for one week only – he absolutely must leave on Wednesday's boat to get back to Hawaii, where a new son awaits his return. Never mind that Sir Frederic Bruce, a former Scotland Yard detective he's only just met, but for whom he already has great respect, has been murdered at a dinner party he was attending. Never mind that Sir Frederic was hot on the trail of a fifteen-year-old mystery involving murder and a missing woman. Never mind that Chan catches twice as many clues as the bumbling San Francisco detective put on the case – he must get home to his son. But even Charlie Chan can't resist a challenge from a beautiful, intelligent woman like June Morrow, deputy district attorney and the lawyer in charge of prosecuting Sir Frederic's murder. One more week away from home should be plenty of time to catch a killer...

Author : Howard M. Berlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025182143

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The Charlie Chan Film Encyclopedia by Howard M. Berlin Pdf

The first film featuring Charlie Chan, The House Without a Key, appeared in 1925. Forty-seven films and six Charlies later, the series still delights audiences. Charlie Chan connoisseurs cite a variety of reasons for the honorable detective's longevity and appeal, ranging from his wit and personality to the films' fascinating casts that often included future celebrities.This encyclopedia contains over 1,900 entries for characters, actors, crew members, plot devices, and facts, as well as film summaries and Charlie's famous aphorisms. Photographs accompany the text and the entries are arranged alphabetically for easy reference and access. Practically anything a fan of these films might want to know is thoroughly analyzed here.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Chan, Charlie (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OXFORD:502267024

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Keeper of the Keys by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf