Charlie Chan in The Temple of the Golden Horde

By Earl Derr Biggers, Michael Collins

1974

First Published

3.83

Average Rating

128

Number of Pages

3H53M

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Part of Series

Charlie Chan

Series · 8 books

By Earl Derr Biggers, Michael Collins

Charlie Chan, visiting San Francisco to make a speech, finds himself swept into one of his most puzzling—and dangerous—cases! A cult known as the Golden Horde is running a spiritual retreat, helping the disturbed and the depressed find inner peace. Benny Chan, who worked for the Golden Horde, is dead ... but the priceless treasure he carried has been recovered. Benny's sister is searching for the truth, and Chan agrees to help her. Ancient scrolls, shadowy villains, and an ancient organization with modern ties to organized crime are just the start. For this case will take Chan across the Pacific in search of answers ... and to the edges of the human psyche!

Avg Rating

3.83

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

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4 STARS

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3 STARS

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Authors

Michael Collins was a Pseudonym of Dennis Lynds (1924–2005), a renowned author of mystery fiction. Raised in New York City, he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart during World War II, before returning to New York to become a magazine editor. He published his first book, a war novel called Combat Soldier, in 1962, before moving to California to write for television. Two years later Collins published the Edgar Award–winning Act of Fear (1967), which introduced his best-known character: the one-armed private detective Dan Fortune. The Fortune series would last for more than a dozen novels, spanning three decades, and is credited with marking a more politically aware era in private-eye fiction. Besides the Fortune novels, the incredibly prolific Collins wrote science fiction, literary fiction, and several other mystery series. He died in Santa Barbara in 2005.