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Book 2011
Charlie Chan
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- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2011
- Detectives
- 19th century
- Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii)
- Biography
- History
- Detectives, biography
- Hawaii, biography
- New York Times reviewed
A biography of cinematic hero Charlie Chan, based on the real-life Chinese immigrant detective, Chang Apana, whose bravado inspired mystery writer Earl Derr Biggers to depict his fictional sleuth as a wisecracking and wise investigator rather than a stereotype.
