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overview : Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute …

overview : When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. …

overview : Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie …

overview : Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. …

overview : While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that …

overview : When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, …

overview : Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and …

overview : Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a …

overview : While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's …

overview : Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder …

overview : While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate …

overview : Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache …

overview : When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to …

overview : Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting …

overview : Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is …

overview : Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival …

overview : On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to …

overview : A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. …