{"id":41874,"date":"2024-05-14T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=41874"},"modified":"2024-05-23T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:48:31","slug":"fifty-candles","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/product\/fifty-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\">\n<div class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\">\n<div class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\">\n<div class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"><span class=\"Formatted\">From the pen of the creator of the famous Chinese detective, Charlie Chan&#8211;a murder mystery in San Francisco and the only clue is a birthday cake with 50 candles. From Pulpville Press.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) is best remembered as the creator of Chinese detective Charlie Chan.Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers&#8217; 1925 novel, &#8220;The House Without a Key,&#8221; and there quickly followed five more Charlie Chan novels. Fifty Candles &#8212; first published just two years after that 1919 vacation &#8212; shows how Hawaii, China, and murder had already begun to come together in Biggers&#8217; imagination. The story starts in a courthouse in Honolulu, moves to China, then to fog-shrouded San Francisco. Many of the elements used in the Charlie Chan series are present: Chinese characters (both sinister and sympathetic), the Honolulu legal system, a shrewd detective (in this case, the lawyer Mark Drew rather than a policemen), and a baffling murder complete with red herrings and plenty of suspects. This special edition includes John Betancourt&#8217;s introduction from the 2001 paperback edition, plus a bonus short story, &#8220;The Way to the Island&#8221; &#8212; a long-lost Earl Derr Biggers tale!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>E book<\/li>\n<li>Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Mystery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[255,278],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41874","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction","7":"product_cat-mystery-crime","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"sale","12":"downloadable","13":"virtual","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/41874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=41874"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgonstore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=41874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}