Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Celebrated Cases of Charlie Chan | 1985 | Charlie Chan | Buy |
Celebrated Cases of Charlie Chan appeared in 1985 as a collected edition of the classic mystery series. It gives readers access to the Charlie Chan novels in a single volume, preserving Earl Derr Biggers’s original detective stories for readers who want to experience the series that launched one of the most famous characters in mystery fiction.
Earl Derr Biggers wrote six Charlie Chan novels between 1925 and 1932, and this omnibus collects them together. The detective, a Honolulu police officer, became far more famous through the film adaptations that followed, but the original novels are where the character began. The books are classic whodunits set in locations from Hawaii to London.
This collected edition is useful for readers who want to read the original novels without hunting down separate copies. The Charlie Chan books are short by modern standards, so a single volume keeps them manageable.