Keeper of the Keys: A Charlie Chan Story
by Biggers, Earl Derr
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932 First edition. Black cloth stamped in orange red. The stamped lettering is very bright and unfaded. Edge of front flap of jacket attached to front pastedown. Rear flap of jacket present but not attached. Rest of jacket missing. Top page edges stained red. 307 pages. 8vo. A few small bubblings of the cloth at base of front cover. Just a little fraying at head and tail of spine. Worn to boards at the very tips of the corners. Lending library stamp on one of the many blank pages at the back with 19 stamped dates - no other evidence of library marks and otherwise clean. Tight. Cloth and text pages bright. Fair or better/ Poor.
Synopsis
This novel is a murder mystery starring Charlie Chan, the Chinese detective from Honolulu. It is set on the shores of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada during early spring - for the first time Charlie Chan sees a snowy landscape! Charlie Chan is a house guest when Ellen Landini, a famous opera singer, is murdered. The suspects include her three former husbands, her present cast-off husband, her current intended and his sister, an ex-boyfriend and his jealous wife, and the first husband's loyal Chinese servant - all of whom were present in the house at the time.
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- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13034
- Title
- Keeper of the Keys: A Charlie Chan Story
- Author
- Biggers, Earl Derr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- General #1;
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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- Tail
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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