Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, tells fifteen of his stories in this new collection featuring "Five O'Clock Junction", "Reformers Three", "Trouble on the Wires", "Meet the Wife", "Saved by Proxy", "A Transaction in Sewing Machines", "Spats McCann", "The Stain-Glassed Window", "There's Many a Slip", "Forty-Seven Girls and Sally", "Soap and Sophocles", "Prisoners in Paradise", "A Big Day for Bill", "Nothing to do Till To-morrow", and "Out of the Dark".