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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Right you are! It is indeed The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers (the first Charlie Chan mystery).
You have the floor!
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Yes, Charlie Chan the character remains controversial for stereotypical depiction of Chinese. Some are very heated about that, as is Frank Chin, Chinese-American author and playwright(from linked program). To me Charlie was always portrayed as the smartest and nicest guy in the story.
Sleuthing Out "Charlie Chan"
Reexaming the silver screen detective Charlie Chan. A new book looks at the caricature and the real-life man he was based on.
So anyway my new mystery book. This may be difficult so I will start with two passages:
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When shall I be dead and rid
Of the wrong my father did?
How long, how long, till spade and hearse
Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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There was a round tower with a weather-cock on it. The weather-cock was a carrion crow, with an arrow in its beak to point to the wind.
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