Charlie Chan Carries On Charlie Chan Carries On Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in "Behind That Curtain", is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place instead. Eventually, after more murders, Chan finds the killer before
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island with a spring trigger to fire the arrow that killed Abdul. He then stabbed himself to divert attention from himself as a suspect. Charlie Chan at Treasure Island Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a 1939 American film directed by Norman Foster, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, that takes place on Treasure Island during San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition. Charlie and Jimmy Chan are traveling by plane to San Francisco. Jimmy befriends insurance executive Thomas Gregory. Charlie's friend, novelist Paul Essex, dies aboard the aircraft after receiving a radiogram warning him not to ignore