English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by personal advertisements (chronicles of agony) in London newspapers. In this treacherous tale of murder and intrigue, young American Geoffrey West tracks a killer from the posh dining room of the Carlton Hotel to the opium dens of London's Limehouse district, in search of the truth and from the heart of his true love to finally find the culprit. too close to home.
AUTHORS BIOGRAPHY…..
Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. He is primarily remembered for his novels, particularly those featuring the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. He worked as a reporter for The Plain Dealer before turning towards fiction. Many of his plays and novels have been adapted into films. He was posthumously inducted into the Warren City Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.
His novel Seven Keys to Baldpate gave rise to seven films of the same title and at least two with different titles (House of the Long Shadows, Haunted Honeymoon) but with essentially equivalent plots. George M. Cohan adapted the novel as a play of the same name, sometimes revived. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version (one of his rare screen appearances) and the film version he later wrote (released in 1935) is perhaps the best known of the seven film versions.
Charlie Chan's popularity spread even to China, where Shanghai audiences enjoyed Hollywood films. Chinese companies have made films featuring this fictional character. Derr Biggers publicly acknowledged real-life Detective Chang Apana as the inspiration for the character Charlie Chan in his letter to the Honolulu Advertiser on June 28, 1932. Biggers lived in San Marino, California, and died in a Pasadena hospital , in California. after suffering a heart attack in Palm Springs, California. He was forty-eight years old.
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