Charlie Chan Behind That Curtain Author:Earl Derr Biggers Cover depicts a painting of actor Warner Oland as he appeared in the 1930s Charlie Chan movies. A little trivia about the films, none of the actors who protrayed Chan in the movies were oriential (Warner Oland; Sidney Toler; Roland Winters & on TV J. Carroll Nash, though all #1 son were (Keye Luke, James Hung, etc.), a statement of the times in ... more »Hollywood during the 1930s/40s. The 3rd novel of Charlie Chan by creator Earl Derr Biggers, have Honolulu Policeman Charlie Chan solves a murder mystery that has baffled Scotland Yard for 15 years. A dinner party with the host lying dead and Chan having find which dinner guest is a murderer. All of Bigger's Charlie Chan novels except one was made into films.« less