Chasing Charlie Chan

by Dave Crosby

Charlie Chandler is a young female cop who has earned a promotion to detective. It’s her dream come true since her late father and grandfather were both detectives. Her new sexist boss assigns her to a murder at the Walnut Creek Amusement Park. “Just the right job for a brainy broad,” he says. It’s her first day on the job. Charlie tackles the job with her new partner, Officer Mitchell Yen, a young man of Chinese ancestry. In her heart she doesn’t have confidence that she can do it, and her performance suffers. She’s afraid of disappointing Dad. Both Charlie and her dad were great fans of the old Charlie Chan movies, so she applies the wisdom and sayings of the old movie character to her new murder case. But things go wrong….

145 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 2007