The Agony Column

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Orpen, Spencer Gore and Walter Sickert. A young American in London begins a courtship through the personal column of a newspaper, and to hold the girl's interest invents a murder in the house next door — then the murder happens. Biggers created Charlie Chan after reading about a real Honolulu detective and meant him as a rebuke to a coun...