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Earl Derr Biggers è stato uno scrittore, commediografo e giornalista statunitense ricordato soprattutto per gli adattamenti cinematografici dei suoi romanzi con il detective Charlie Chan.
- Charlie Chan e il pappagallo cinese
Charlie Chan e il pappagallo cinese (titolo originale The...
- Charlie Chan e il cammello nero
Charlie Chan e il cammello nero (1929) è il quarto romanzo...
- Charlie Chan e il pappagallo cinese
Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China.
Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on Hawaiian detective Chang Apana. The benevolent and heroic Chan was conceived as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes and villains like Fu Manchu.
Charlie Chan e la casa senza chiavi (The House Without a Key) è uno dei romanzi polizieschi di Earl Derr Biggers, il primo del ciclo di Charlie Chan, l'investigatore di origine cinese in forza al dipartimento di polizia di Honolulu.
The House Without a Key is a 1925 novel by Earl Derr Biggers, the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries. Set in 1920s Hawaiʻi, the novel acquaints the reader with the look and feel of the islands from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, describing social class structures and customs of the era.
