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Behind That Curtain

出版	Independently Published, 2019-10-25
主題	Fiction / ClassicsFiction / Mystery & Detective / GeneralFiction / Mystery & Detective / Police ProceduralFiction / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & MysteryFiction / Thrillers / CrimeFiction / CrimeFiction / Asian American
ISBN	17017635839781701763586
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0Nu_ywEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The third novel in the Charlie Chan series, set almost exclusively in California, tells the story of the former head of Scotland Yard, a detective who is pursuing the long-cold trail of a murderer. Fifteen years ago, a London solicitor was killed in circumstances in which the only clue was a pair of Chinese slippers, which he apparently donned just before his death. Sir Frederic Bruce has been following the trail of the killer ever since. He has also been interested in what appears to be a series of disappearing women around the world, which has some connection to the disappearance of a woman named Eve Durand in rural India also fifteen years ago. Just when it seems he might finally solve the murder case, at a dinner party to which a number of important and mysterious guests have been invited, Inspector Bruce is killed - and was last seen wearing a pair of Chinese slippers, which have vanished. It is left to Chan to solve the case and tie up all loose ends.Earl Derr Biggers was an American novelist and playwright best remembered for his detective novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which many films were made. His first successful novel Seven Keys to Baldpate became a hit Broadway stage play, and later adapted to seven different film versions. More than 10 years after this early success Biggers had even greater success with his series of Charlie Chan detective novels whose popularity extended even to China, where audiences in Shanghai appreciated these Hollywood films