Mr. Moto Volume 1 – John P. Marquand

Description

Mr. Moto is a Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand who initially created the character on demand from the Saturday Evening Post, as a replacement for Charlie Chan after Chan’s creator Earl Derr Biggers died and there was no Asian hero series.

Your Turn, Mr. Moto

The first novel (aka No Hero and Mr. Moto Takes a Hand) in the series

A down-on-his luck American flyer… A beautiful adventuress… A mysterious Chinese courier A scrap of paper worth many lives and the peace of the entire world… And a jigsaw pattern of treachery and sudden death. Enter the inimitable Mr. Moto, the only one who can solve the case. This is the first book that introduced this extraordinary sleuth.