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Biggers, Earl Derr

Earl Derr Biggers was an American journalist, theatre critic and the father of Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective from Honolulu and a classic character in crime fiction. Although Biggers only wrote six novels about Chan, he has been the subject of some fifty films, one television drama and two television series. New Charlie Chan stories have been written after the author's death by, among others,...

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Reggie (Reginald) Fortune

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Doctor and pathologist, often engaged by Scotland Yard. He is a gourmet, and thus somewhat overweight, and looks more like a middle-aged cherub, and he is happily married to actress Joan Amber. But above all, Reginald ‘Reggie’ Fortune is a skilled amateur sleuth who, in books by English writer H.C.Bailey, often helps the weaker party and solves a number of tricky whodunit mysteries.

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