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e--q · 3 months

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Enter the Dragon

~ Happy Lunar New Year ~

(Handmade Soft Toy Dragon inspired by Earl Derr Biggers’s detective Charlie Chan)

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imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs · 4 months

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Reblog to solve a mystery

#poll #polls #my polls #charlie chan #mystery #20th centery fox #monogram pictures #warner oland #sidney toler #roland winters #keye luke #mantan moreland #Benson Fong #Earl Derr Biggers

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veryslowreader · 1 year

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The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers

Hawaii Five-0: "Pua A'e La Ka Uwahi O Ka Moe"

#the house without a key #charlie chan #earl derr biggers #hawaii five-0 #scott caan

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a-life-in-books · 1 year

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Earl Derr Biggers

"In those warm islands, thin men were the rule, but here was a striking exception. He was very fat indeed, yet he walked with the light dainty step of a woman. His cheeks were as chubby as a baby's, his skin ivory tinted, his black hair close-cropped, his amber eyes slanting."

The House Without a Key

The Chinese Parrot

Behind That Curtain

The Black Camel

Charlie Chan Carries On

Keeper of the Keys

#Earl Derr Biggers #Charlie Chan #The House Without a Key #The Chinese Parrot #Behind That Curtain #The Black Camel #Charlie Chan Carries On #Keeper of the Keys #author #authors #read #literature #books #quotation #reading

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albertayebisackey · 2 years

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Saturday 18th June 2022 - Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes. - Earl Derr Biggers

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princelysome · 2 years

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WW I is coming to Europe and it will enmesh Jane Gerson, the fresh-faced and eager young buyer from a New York department store, in a web of espionage and danger. A good, entertaining story from 1915.

#2022 #books i've read #kindle #earl derr biggers #inside the lines

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faustiandevil · 7 months

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Decided to make my life a bit easier and translated the shorter article first. As always I'm not a professional, but I do try my best.

Looking for Charlie Chan Famous with the Hungarian audiences as well the character created by novelist Earl Derr Biggers (Translator’s Notes: In the article it’s written as dir instead of Derr, presumably a typo.): Charlie Chan, the Chinese detective, who can solve even the most complicated of mysteries. The popular detective stories were made into movies and at the beginning Warner Oland, the famous actor of old times portrayed the Chinese detective. Warner Oland has since passed away and the role went to Sidney Toler. Now Toler has also moved on from the land of the living and there is a look out for a new Charlie Chan. The studio producing the series is thinking of making Charlie Chan’s character younger, and Hungarian born Peter Lorre is the number one candidate for the role. (Source: Mozi Élet 1947, 15)

Aren’t you tired of playing Japanese characters? Don’t you want to play a Chinese one instead? I’m pretty sure he would have loathed the role just as much as he did Moto and that’s why nothing came of it. Also not speaking of the obvious that it’s very… … … racist.

#Peter Lorre #Faustian Fables #Faustian Translations

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pulpsandcomics2 · 2 years

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The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers (Avon, 1951)

#detective novel #charlie chan #mystery novel.

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deuteriumuniverse · 2 years

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Gosho's Detective Picture Book Reviews

My review of detectives (and detective novels) based on Gosho's Detective Picture Book (also called Gosho's Mystery Library) are as below, to be completed not in the near future.

❤️ denote my personal favorites

Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) ❤️

Kogoro Akechi (Edogawa Rampo)

Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) ❤️

Arsene Lupin (Maurice Leblanc)

Jules Maigret (Georges Simenon)

Kousuke Kindaichi (Seishi Yokomizo)

Lieutenant Columbo (Richard Levison and William Link)

Zenigata Heiji (Kodo Nomura)

Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler)

C. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe)

Ellery Queen (Ellery Queen) ❤️

V.I. Warshawski (Sara Paretsky)

Father Brown (C.K. Chesterton)

Cordelia Gray (P.D. James) ❤️

Heizo Hasegawa (Shotaro Ikenami)

Mitsuhiko Asami (Yasuo Uchida)

Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout)

Shunsaku Kudo (Nobumitsu Kodaka)

Hannibal Lecter (Thomas Harris)

Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) ❤️

Sam Spade (Dashiell Hammett)

Shozo Totsugawa (Kyotaro Nishimura)

Ninzaburo Furuhata (Kouki Mitani)

Perry Mason (Erle Stanley Gardner)

Mikeneko Holmes (Jiro Akagawa)

Inspector Samejima (Arimasa Osawa)

James Bond (Ian Fleming)

Kyosuke Kamizu (Akimitsu Takagi)

Charlie Chan (Earl Derr Biggers)

John Thorndyke (Richard Austin Freeman)

Touyama Kin-san (Tatsurou Jinde)

Mike Hammer (Mickey Spillane)

Philo Vance (S.S. Van Dine)

Akakabu-kenji (Shunzo Waku)

Drury Lane (Ellery Queen)

Katherine Turner (Misa Yamamura)

Henry Jackson (Isaac Asimov)

Denshichi (Tatsurou Jinde)

Lew Archer (Ross Macdonald)

Kiyoshi Mitarai (Soji Shimada)

The Old Man in the Corner (Baroness Orczy)

Joseph Rouletabille (Gaston Leroux)

Hanshichi (Kido Okamoto) ❤️

Koichiro Munakata (Seiichi Morimura)

Eitaro Imanishi (Seicho Matsumoto)

Gideon Fell (John Dickson Carr)

Yuichiro Goda (Kaoru Takamura)

Ukyou Sugishita (Yasuhiro Koshimizu)

Steve Carella (Ed McBain)

Hideo Himura (Alice Arisugawa)

Riyako Asabuki (Shizuko Natsuki)

Robert Ironside (Collier Young)

Akihiko Chuzenji (Natsuhiko Kyogoku)

Kiyoshi Shimada (Yukito Ayatsuji)

The Continental Op (Dashiell Hammett) ❤️

Ningyo Sashichi (Seishi Yokomizo)

Joseph French (Freeman Wills Crofts)

Yoshibumi Takagi (Kenzo Kitakata)

Mom (James Yaffe)

Rintaro Norizuki (Rintaro Noziruki)

Koko (Lilian Jackson Braun)

Manabu Yukawa (Keigo Higashino) ❤️

Daisuke Kanbe (Yasutaka Tsutsui)

Inspector Zenigata (Monkey Punch)

Robert Langdon (Dan Brown)

Akojuro Senba (Juran Hisao)

Kanki Ibaragi (Futaro Yamada)

Bannai Tarao (Yoshitake Hisa)

Richard Cuff (Wilkie Collins)

Philip Trent (E.C. Bentley)

Gregory House (David Shore)

Yoshio Kuraishi (Hideo Yokoyama)

Adrian Monk (Andy Breckman and David Hoberman)

Inspector Onitsura (Tetsuya Ayukawa)

Enshi Shunotei (Kaoru Kitamura)

Lincoln Rhyme (Jeffery Deaver)

Kei Enomoto (Yusuke Kishi)

Keisuke Shiratori (Takeru Kaido)

Genya Tojo (Shinzo Mitsuda)

Shioriko Shinokawa (En Mikami)

Handyman of Susukino (Naomi Azuma)

Kageyama (Tokuya Higashigawa)

Hotaro Oreki (Honobu Yonezawa)

Lisbeth Salander (Stieg Larsson)

Lieutenant Fukuie (Takahiro Ookura)

Takeshi Yoshiki (Soji Shimada)

Jiro Egami (Alice Arisugawa)

Kyouko Okitegami (Nisio Isin)

Sakurako Kujou (Shiori Ota)

The Phantom Thief Detective Yamaneko (Manabu Kaminaga)

Riko Rinda (Keisuke Matsuoka)

Shinichiro Hanaoka (Koji Hayashi and Junpei Yamaoka)

Richard Castle (Andrew W. Warlowe)

Hiroto Miyama (Manabu Uda)

Yukimasa Yugami (Hideo Iura)

Mikoto Mitsumi (Akiko Nogi)

Keita Kurokochi (Takashi Nagasaki)

Totono Kuno (Yumi Tamura)

Maomao (Natsu Hyuga)

Sherlock Holmes (Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss) ❤️

Rohan Kishibe (Hirohiko Araki)

Seiko Fuji (Miko Yasu)

#gosho aoyama's mystery library #gosho aoyama's detective picture book #mystery #detective fiction

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outoftowninac · 2 years

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SEE SAW

1919 - 1920

See-Saw is a musical in two acts by Louis A. Hirsch (music), book and lyrics by Earl Derr Biggers. It was originally produced by Henry W. Savage, directed by John McKee with musical staging by Julian Alfred.

The musical is based on the novel and un-produced non-musical play Love Insurance by Earl Derr Biggers.

Cynthia Meyrick, daughter of Spencer Meyrick. a wealthy Detroit auto manufacturer, has promised to marry Lord Harrowby, a rattle-brain spendthrift. Although he owns a yacht, Harrow has debts and his creditors show no mercy. Harrowby induces Lloyds to insure him against the loss of Cynthia. Lloyds American agent, Richard Minot, assures the home office that be will never leave Lord Harrowby until he is married to Cynthia. Minot has no idea that Cynthia is the girl he met and fell in love with in France without learning her name. The discovery comes when Harrowby's yacht, with wedding party and guests aboard, is setting sail. In Florida, there are more complications, including a demand by Cleo Ray, an actress with whom Lord Harrowby had an affair some years back.

See-Saw had its world premiere in Boston MA at the Tremont Theatre on August 2, 1919. An actors’ strike threatened to prematurely close the show. Savage filed injunctions and threatened legal action against anyone striking.

See-Saw opened on Broadway on September 23, 1919 at the George M. Cohan Theatre (1482 Broadway at West 43rd Street). It was originally scheduled to open on the 22nd, but was delayed a day.

About the Venue: It was built in 1911 by George M. Cohan and Sam Harris. It was sold in 1915, but it was lost to the bank in a mortgage settlement in 1938, and was torn down

In addition to introducing the word ‘squishy’, the production was also praised for innovating the ‘student chorus’, one which used singers as understudies for the leading role, training them for future stardom.

Most critics praised Der Biggers book, but found the songs trite and familiar by comparison. Some critics carped about the multiple encores of the song “When Two Hearts Discover.” One newspaper (the World) numbered the repetitions as a dozen!

See-Saw closed on December 1, 1919 with 89 performances.

The musical opened in Atlantic City at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre on December 29, 1919.

#See-Saw #Henry W. Savage #musical #Broadway Musical #Atlantic City #Nixon's Apollo Theatre #George M. Cohan Theatre

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alrederedmixedmedia · 8 months

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Alredered Remembers creator of Charlie Chan, Ohio-born Earl Biggers, on his birthday.

"When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing."

-Earl Derr Biggers

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e--q · 2 years

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Enter the Dragon - Mr Charlie Chan

(Handmade Soft Toy inspired by the character created by Earl Derr Biggers and the television series The New Adventures of Charlie Chan starring J. Carrol Naish)

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tracinginwardinvestigation · 10 months

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Note #39: Earl Derr Biggers’ “The Dollar Chasers”: Disruption in reading expectation

Having proofread romantic short stories one after another in Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories, a short story collection by Earl Derr Biggers, I have to admit I was surprised when I read “The Dollar Chasers”; still a romantic story, but with a detective twist.

For the first third of the short story, the story features a typical romantic plot structure: a poor reporter named Bill Hammond falls in love with a woman who is way beyond his class, and he has to find a way to prove this love to her when they go on a cruise trip together. The subtle shift in genre first occurs when Hammond declares that he would find the love interest’s father’s lost prize coin: “‘You know, Sally,’ he said, ‘I've done considerable police reporting, and on more than one occasion a hard-boiled detective has complimented me. I've dug up some rather important evidence.’”. Despite the mystery’s initial impression as only a backdrop for the romance, the extricating details of the mystery—lengthy investigation scene, witness testimonies, a failed revelation scene—establish that it is actually a full-fleshed clue-puzzle mystery, one that bears the most resemblance to the classical detective fiction. Even the setting itself, the isolated cruise, makes for a perfect setup for an amateur detective tale. Overall, “The Dollar Chasers” is a nice cozy mystery. After I looked up and found out the author was the same one as Charlie Chan, a popular detective fiction series, I was not exactly surprised; the short story certainly shows a rigid adherence to the structure of a classical detective story underneath its romantic storyline.

What interests me about “The Dollar Chasers” the most, however, is that it is a detective story in a non-detective fiction collection. Even in a short story collection, a story does not exist in a vacuum. Being in a collection means I can read the story in any order I like, but at the same time it also means that my previously read short story can inform my next reading. Having read all of the stories in the collection in order, which was to say I read from one romantic short story to another, I came into “The Dollars Chasers” without a preconception that I would read a detective fiction. With how well the story hides its detective fiction aspect early on, I did not notice its genre shift until halfway through the story. And once I did, I did feel a change in my thinking approach: I took the mystery more seriously, and I tried to reread the early parts to gather clues. The surprising genre shift made for a fun satisfaction when I managed to solve the mystery before the final revelation; it did increase my enjoyment of the short story more.

I do wonder if I would have liked the short story this much if I read it knowingly it is detective fiction; probably, but definitely not this strong. When I know a story is a detective fiction, I tend to read it with a specific mindset in mind in order to anticipate the next narrative moments, being genre savvy and all. The downside is that I might forget that I could simply read it for entertainment. The surprising detective genre shift certainly has made the romantic aspect in the story more memorable for me also. In a way, this particular experience with “The Dollar Chasers” has highlighted how my expectation of a work can influence my reading and enjoyment of it.

Is there a way for me to read more detective works without knowing they are detective works? Definitely a hard task considering just by trying to find more detective work to read, I essentially set up the expectation that “I am going to read detective fiction”, and thus I can’t get surprised by their mystery. But at the same time, that element of surprise does make me lower my guard down and participate in the moment instead of predicting the next move the story would make. I think what I am trying to capture again is a swift moment of unawareness, where I am just enjoying the feeling of getting flabbergasted by the mystery as though I have no clue about what is going to happen next. Could I develop a reading approach that “simulates” how I could read without expectation? What an odd thing to say haha.

All in all, I do plan to check out other works by Earl Derr Biggers. I enjoy his writing style.

#tracingtheculpritstrack #tct_notes #tct_detectivefic #tct_impression

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postersdecinema · 1 year

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A Casa Enfeitiçada

EUA, 1944

Phil Rosen

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Os Desgastados Truques de Charlie Chan

Enorme sucesso nos anos 30 e 40, este Charlie Chan, criado por Earl Derr Biggers em seis novelas, editadas entre 1925 e 1932 (o autor faleceu em 1933), foi adaptado ao cinema a partir de 1926. Sendo Chan um detetive chinês, oriundo do Hawaii, nos primeiros filmes foi interpretado por atores asiáticos. Paradoxalmente o sucesso só chegou a partir de 1931, quando a Fox contratou o ator sueco, Warner Oland, para o papel principal, o qual vestiria a pele de Chan em 15 filmes, até à sua morte, em 1938. Foi então substituído por Sidney Toler, que faria mais 22 filmes como Charlie Chan, de qualidade decrescente, até à sua morte, em 1947.

Misturando a comédia com o policial, Chan foi a resposta de Hollywood a Sherlock Holmes e aos mistérios de Agatha Christie.

Significativo da mentalidade da época é o facto de Chan só ter alcançado o sucesso quando foi interpretado por atores brancos (grotescamente disfarçados de chineses) e pelo facto de muita da comédia da série, assentar nas diferenças étnicas dos personagens, fossem os asiáticos Chan e os seus 14 filhos, fosse mais tarde o personagem negro Birmingham Brown, interpretado por Mantan Moreland.

Mesmo no pico da sua popularidade, Charlie Chan nunca deixou de ser o equivalente cinematografico a uma comédia televisiva, de orçamento limitado e argumentos sofríveis e repetitivos.

Este A Casa Enfeitiçada é já um produto tardio, decadente, quase inteiramente filmado em interiores e com um argumento que reproduz, total ou parcialmente, tramas anteriores.

Só é recomendado para fanáticos da série.

The Worn Out Tricks of Charlie Chan

Enormous success in the 30s and 40s, this Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers in six novels, published between 1925 and 1932 (the author died in 1933), was adapted to the cinema from 1926 onwards. Beeing a chinese from Hawaii, in the first films he was played by Asian actors. Paradoxically, success only came from 1931 on, when Fox hired the Swedish actor, Warner Oland, for the lead role, who would wear Chan's skin in 15 films, until his death in 1938. He was then replaced by Sidney Toler, who would make 22 more films as Charlie Chan, of diminishing quality, until his death in 1947.

Blending comedy with crime, Chan was Hollywood's answer to Sherlock Holmes and the mysteries of Agatha Christie.

Significant of the mindset at the time is the fact that Chan only achieved success when he was performed by white actors (grotesquely disguised as Chinese) and the fact that much of the show's comedy relied on the characters' ethnic differences, be they from Asian Chan family and their 14 children, was it later, from the black character Birmingham Brown, played by Mantan Moreland.

Even at the peak of its popularity, Charlie Chan never ceased to be the cinematographic equivalent of a television comedy, with a limited budget and poor and repetitive arguments.

This The Enchanted House is already a late product, decadent, almost entirely filmed indoors and with a script that reproduces, in Multiple parts, previous plots.

It is only recommended for fanatics of the series.

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gabrielratchet · 1 year

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#movieoftheday HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS (1983) director: Pete Walker, screenplay: Michael Armstrong, from the novel SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE by Earl Derr Biggers and the stage adaptation by George M. Cohan, cinematography: Norman Langley https://www.instagram.com/p/CmBe5f3ufZo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#movieoftheday

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elcinelateleymickyandonie · 2 years

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''EL CLAN CHAN''

Es una serie de dibujos animados producida por Hanna-Barbera Productions en 1972, basada en las serie de película del detective chino Charlie Chan (personaje de Earl Derr Biggers) de los años 1930s.

Año de inicio: 1972

Dirección: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Clan_Chan

Para ver el tráiler ingresa al enlace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7oUjfGedJM

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