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Title: Fannishness and Bean-Counting
Review: For readers interested in a poorly written random collection of facts, this is probably THE Charlie Chan film book to have. If you want to ruin the films' mystery elements, this is definitely the book to have, since the author has bizarrely decided to tell the reader the identity of the killer in a wrong-headed appendix. But in all this something is missing. What could it be? The true sense of the films themselves perhaps? A degree of style? Yes, that's what I'm missing here. This is the well-intentioned work of a fan who seems to think that amassing enough facts is an adequate substitute for understanding the films themselves. It isn't. Thank you so much, but no thank you.
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