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Earl Derr Biggers' mystery ''The Black Camel'' was first published in 1929. The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with...
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...
OUTSIDE a gilt-lettered door on the seventeenth floor of a New York office building, a tall young man in a fur-lined coat stood shivering. Why did he shiver in that coat? He shivered because he was fussed, poor chap. Because he was rattled, from the soles of his...
London that historic summer was almost unbearably hot. It seems, looking back, as though the big baking city in those days was meant to serve as an anteroom of torture - an inadequate bit of preparation for the hell that was soon to break in the guise of the Great War....
Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933)"Le Pacifique est le plus désert des océans et les voyageurs qui traversent cette solitude mouvante se sentent perdus entre ciel et eau. Mais si, venant des atolls des mers du Sud, on fait route vers la côte de Californie, on rencontre à...
Bob Merrill ne se doutait pas, en quittant son Texas natal pour se rendre en bateau en Italie et retrouver la femme qu’il aime, que ce voyage vers le bonheur serait l’occasion, pour lui, de vivre la plus pénible aventure, mais aussi de recevoir une leçon qui lui serait...
Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933)"De la rue brumeuse, Alexandre Eden pénétra dans le vaste hall aux piliers de marbre où la firme Meek et Eden offrait à sa riche clientèle ses collections de bijoux et d’orfèvrerie. Derrière les vitrines où étincelaient pierres précieuses,...
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