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Dark alibi: Chan must act quickly to stop the execution of an innocent Death Row inmate. Dangerous money: Number Two Son and Chattanooga Brown aim to help Chan investigate a murder on a cruise to Samoa. The trap: In Toler's last appearance as Chan, he investigates the killings of showgirls in Malibu. The Chinese ring: In Winters' debut as Chan, a Chinese princess is murdered in Chan's house.
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Honolulu detective Charlie Chan goes undercover in the California desert in this classic mystery adventure.
The transfer of a valuable string of pearls from Hawaii to California draws Honolulu detective Charlie Chan into the orbit of an eccentric financier with a penchant for exotic pets. When he encounters a Chinese-speaking parrot, Chan is intrigued by the provocative and dangerous question it asks. And when the bird mysteriously dies, Chan is determined...
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Charlie Chan is hired when an archeologist disappears during the excavation of ancient art treasures in Egypt. Chan must sort out the stories of the archelogy team,deal with the crazed son of the missing scientist, find out why priceless objects are turning up in the hands of private collectors, and battle a raft of seemingly supernatural events.
13) The golden eye
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Charlie Chan, along with number two son, Tommy, and the irrepressible Birmingham, travels to Arizona to find out why the owner of a suddenly profitable gold mine thinks someone is out to kill him.
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Charlie Chan, along with his enthusiastic "number-two son," Tommy, and his chauffeur, Birmingham, are brought to New Orleans to investigate the mysterious goings-on with the partners at the LaFontanne Chemical Company Soon after, the head of the company is found dead, and a series of unexplainable deaths follow the investigation.
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Charlie Chan is packing to go home after solving a case in London, a lovely young woman, Pamela Gray, begs him to solve another case: her brother Paul is on death row for a crime, Pamela says, he didn't commit. With only three days to uncover the truth, Chan spends the weekend at an English country manor with all the suspects -- while they hun a fox, he hunts the real killer.
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A murder mystery about a ship bound for San Francisco that takes a murderous detour to Hawaii. As the incomparable investigator awaits the birth of his number-one grandchild, his own scheming sons try to fill their father's shoes by solving a high-seas murder mystery on their own. But when a second victim is found strangled, it's up to Chan to tie up the boat-- and eventually the murder case.
18) Shanghai chest
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Charlie Chan is back in San Francisco to solve a triple murder: Judge Armstrong has been stabbed; District Attorney Frank Bronson was shot, and juror Thomas Cartwright is found hanged. However, the only clues at the scene of crimes are the fingerprints of a man who was executed over six months earlier. How could a dead man commit three murders?
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When Chan heads to Paris for a reunion with his WWI buddies, he finds the City of Light plunged into darkness, as Europe teeters on the brink of war. But when Chan stumbles on an evil spy ring that's selling arms to Germany, the intrepid detective is determined to shed the light of justice onto evil's darkest and most dangerous enterprise.
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In Reno, if love hurts, divorce can be murder. When Charlie Chan sets out to solve the murder of an unhappily married socialite, he soon discovers that "til death do us part" can be a deadly vow to break. As the legendary detective squares off against desperate divorcées, murderous mistresses and blackhearted blackmailers, he quickly begins to suspect that when it comes to America's divorce capital, "happily ever after" may be the greatest casualty...
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