Romance,
love and
beauty
mingle
with the
sound of
the
breakers
on the
beach of
Waikiki.
It is no
place
for
murder.
Yet in a
spot of
exquisite
beauty,
Dan
Winterslip,
the
genial
old
reprobate,
is
stabbed
to
death.
And
Honolulu
buzzes
with
gossip
of the
deep
secrets
of his
past and
the
scarlet
tales of
his
youth,
cropping
up now
like
black
ghosts
to point
mysterious
fingers
at his
murderer.
The
murderer
of Dan
Winterslip
wore a
wrist-watch
whose
illuminated
face
lacked a
figure
two.
This
much
Dan's
spinster
cousin
from
Boston
saw when
she
returned
late
from a
native
festival.
In the
black
living
room she
saw the
gleaming
dial of
the
watch,
she felt
the eyes
of a
person
following
her. In
the
morning
comes a
score of
clues,
baffling
stories,
threads
of
intrigue,
unknown
paths to
the
past,
leading
through
the
intricacies
of a
superb
story.
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The
Chinese
Parrot
--
Charlie
Chan #2
The
California
desert,
with its
deformed
Joshua
trees,
its vast
expanse
of sand,
its
incredibly
near
stars
under
tremendous
night,
is the
location.
But we
have
glimpses
of the
San
Francisco
and
Hollywood
with
streets
showing
"living
examples
of what
the
well-dressed
man and
woman
will
wear if
not
carefully
watched."
Charlie
Chan,
the
self-deprecatory
Chinese
detective,
brings
the
Jordan
necklace
to the
lonely
ranch of
the
great
financier,
P.J.
Madden.
The
Chinese
Parrot
shrieks
in the
nigh --
HELP!
MURDER!
PUT DOWN
THAT
GUN! --
and from
then on
sinister,
funny,
unexpected,
desperate,
comical
and
highly
disturbing
things
keep
happening
on the
ranch.
They
build up
to a
thrilling
climax.
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Behind
That
Curtain
--
Charlie
Chan #3
In
Behind
that
Curtain,
the
murder
in San
Francisco
of Sir
Frederic
Bruce,
former
head of
Scotland
Yard is
the
center
of the
plot.
Before
the
motives
back of
that
mysterious
deed are
laid
bare,
there
develops
a
romance
of three
continents.
"There
are more
women in
it than
in the
Follies,
"
complains
Captain
Flannery
of the
San
Francisco
police;
and one
of them
evoked
an
extraordinary
gallantry,
devotion
and
sacrifice.
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Black
Camel --
Charlie
Chan #4
There
is only
one
possible
solution
to the
mystery.
Can you
guess
it?
Everything
is
reasonable,
natural,
inevitable.
Mr.
Biggers
is
absolutely
fair to
his
readers.
All the
clues
are on
the
table.
There is
none up
his
sleeve.
The
possible
murderer
is to be
found
among a
certain
definitely
limited
number
of
people.
You are
kept in
possession
of all
the
facts as
they
become
known to
Charlie
Chan.
Can you
be as
astute
as he is
in
putting
these
facts
together?
To be
sure
Charlie
has his
troubles.
The
skein is
fearfully
tangled.
These
pleasant
people
assembled
at the
home of
a great
movie
star on
Waikiki
Beach
seem
caught
in a
hopeless
web.
Charlie
Chan,
now
Inspector
Chan,
has
never
been so
delightful,
so
humorous,
so wise,
so
shrewd.
His
Chinese
aphorisms
hit the
mark
every
time,
and he
is at
home
again in
Honolulu,
the
crossroads
of the
Pacific,
a
colorful
scene.
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Charlie
Chan
Carries
On --
Charlie
Chan #5
In
Room 28
on the
3rd
floor of
Broome's
super-respectable
hotel in
London,
lay an
American
tourist,
one Hugh
Morris
Drake,
kindly
automobile
manufacturer
from
Detroit.
He had
been
murdered
in the
night.
Drake
was a
member
of a
round-the-world
travel
party,
and
before
Inspector
Duff of
Scotland
Yard
could
discover
any
convincing
evidence,
the
group
was
moving
on. By
train
and ship
they
widened
the
distance
between
themselves
and
Broome's
Hotel,
while
Death
hovered
like a
brooding
hawk
above,
and Duff
tried
frantically
to get
the
answer
to the
puzzle.
How
Charlie
Chan
comes
into it,
the
reader
will
want to
discover
for
himself.
Suffice
it to
say that
he does
come in
-- the
same old
Charlie
with his
fresh
aphorisms
and
delicious
mannerisms
...
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Keeper
of the
Keys --
Charlie
Chan #6
At
Dudley
Ward's
home in
the
Sierras
is
gathered
a unique
group of
people.
With the
exception
of
Charlie
Chan,
all have
one bond
in
common.
Four are
ex-husbands,
and one
the
future
husband
of the
famous
singer,
Ellen
Landini.
Suddenly
she
herself
appears
- only
to be
murdered
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Seven
Keys to
Baldpate,
The
Baldpate
is an
inn,
perched
high and
lonely
on a
mountain
side. In
summerit
is a
scene of
gayety;
in
winter
it
stands
desolate
and
deserted.
But
there
are
seven
keys
opening
seven of
the
Baldpate
doors,
which,
in
various
ways,
come
into the
possession
of seven
people,
who, for
various
reasons,
desire
solitude;
and they
all seek
it, by
means of
the keys
in their
possession,
during
the same
week in
December.
First
among
these
solitude-seekers
is a
young
novelist,
who
having
won a
popular
reputation
by the
writing
of
melodrama,
desires
to
escape
from all
thought
of the
adventurous,
only to
find
himself
plunged
into
real
melodrama
of the
most
exciting
order
...
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