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The House Without a Key
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781684225422
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: Apr 4 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. In this first Charlie Chan mystery, a violent killing occurs in a beach house in Wikiki. The mosquito netting has been slashed. One of the richest men in Hawaii is discovered lying on his side, a knife through his heart, a lizard running up his chest, leaving a crimson trail on his pajamas.
Set in 1920s Hawaii, 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.
Young John Quincy Winterslip, a proper Bostonian, helps Charlie Chan, the noted Chinese detective, find out who murdered genial old Dan Winterslip after entering his Waikiki Beach home without a key.--Novelist.
I would put Charlie Chan among the ten best fictional detectives. Rex Stout
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