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has also been interested in what appears to be a series of disappearing women around the world, which has some connection to the disappearance of a woman named Eve Durand in rural India also fifteen years ago. Just when it seems he might finally solve the murder case, at a dinner party to which a number of important and mysterious guests have been invited, Inspector Bruce is killed—and was last seen wearing a pair of Chinese slippers, which have vanished. It is left to Chan to solve the case and tie up all loose ends.
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who is pursuing the long-cold trail of a murderer. Fifteen years ago, a London solicitor was killed in circumstances in which the only clue was a pair of Chinese slippers, which he apparently donned just before his death. Sir Frederic Bruce has been following the trail of the killer ever since. He
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Index


Earl Derr Biggers
Charlie Chan
Mystery novel
Bobbs-Merrill
1928
Hardback
Paperback
The Chinese Parrot
The Black Camel
Charlie Chan
mystery novels
Earl Derr Biggers
California
native
Hawaii
Scotland Yard
detective
Behind That Curtain
lost film
Fox Theatre
San Francisco
ISBN
978-0-553-08464-1
ISBN
0-552-68464-3
ISBN
0-89966-078-9
ISBN
0-445-40214-8

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