The Agony Column: A Mystery of the Personal Columns
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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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 country that was passing exclusion laws; this 1916 novella came before Chan, and the trick of it is very neat indeed. Fifty-eight plates of Munch, Sickert and their contemporaries, from music halls to North London streets, catch the uneasy city mood of the tale.
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...
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Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933) was an American author and playwright. He began his career as a journalist for the Boston Traveler and later turned to fiction. He is known for the mystery novel The Agony Column (1916) and for creating the detective Charlie Chan.
Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933) was an American author and playwright. He began his career as a journalist for the Boston Traveler and later turned to fiction. He is known for the mystery novel The Agony Column (1916) and for creating the detective Charlie Chan.
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