03515cam a2200469 4500 534564016 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781434439703 1434439704 B0015T58GG Amazon 2ba46bba-49c8-4c94-9e53-5e9bd75b2ab6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 541386 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933. Fifty Candles [Libby eBook] : By the Creator of Charlie Chan. Wildside Press LLC, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 183kB. Format: OverDrive Open EPUB eBook, Filesize: 183kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. San Francisco. Chinatown. detective. murder . hawaii. lawyer. 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!. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0484-1/2BA/46B/BA/FiftyCandles9781434439703.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2BA46BBA-49C8-4C94-9E53-5E9BD75B2AB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0484-1/2BA/46B/BA/FiftyCandles9781434439703.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2BA46BBA-49C8-4C94-9E53-5E9BD75B2AB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0484-1/2BA/46B/BA/FiftyCandles9781434439703.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2BA46BBA-49C8-4C94-9E53-5E9BD75B2AB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0484-1/2BA/46B/BA/FiftyCandles9781434439703.epub Excerpt (Open EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2BA46BBA-49C8-4C94-9E53-5E9BD75B2AB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Open EPUB eBook) TXGID