Charlie Chan in the Temple of the Golden Horde, by Michael Collins (Hardcover)
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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. The rarest of scrolls from the days of Ghengis Khan, shadowy villains, and an ancient organization with ties to modern 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!
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine wrote:
"Under the house name Robert Hart Davis, Collins wrote the lead novella in the third issue (May 1974) of the short-lived Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine. His updated version of the Honolulu detective captures Earl Derr Biggers' character better than the magazine's earlier attempts, and the tricky puzzle of a San Francisco religious cult and its sacred scrolls is appropriately in the spirit of a 1930s movie whodunit."
Over some four decades, Dennis Lynds (who also writes as Michael Collins, Mark Sadler, John Crowe, William Arden, and Carl Dekker) has published more than 60 novels and won many mystery and literary awards, both nationally an internationally, including the Edgar, which is awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, and the Marlowe, the Lifetime Achievment Award of the SoCal Chapter of MWA, given to him in 2002. Under the pen name Michael Collins, his Dan Fortune stories constitute one of the longest-running private detective series ever written, beginning in 1967 with Act of Fear and continuing on to today. He is largely credited with being the writer who brought the detective novel into the modern age: ôMany critics believe Dan Fortune to be the culmination of a maturing process that transformed the private eye from the naturalistic Spade (Dashiell Hammett) through the romantic Marlowe (Raymond Chandler) and the psychological Archer (Ross Macdonald) to the sociological Fortune (Michael Collins),ö according to Private Eyes: 101 Knights, by Robert Baker and Michael Nietzel.
ôAfter naming Lynds the Best Suspense writer of the 1970s,ö Baker and Nietzel continue, ôthe Crime Literature Association of West Germany praised him as follows: æThe break in private eye novels started with Michael Collins. At the end of the 1960s, he gave the form something new, a human touch needed for years. His novels are much more than entertainment. There is a philosophy behind the detective, and in each book we take a look at a special section of American society.'ö
He has also been awarded the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, and as Michael Collins been nominated for two more Edgars, one as recently as 2002, and three PWA Shamus Awards.