My father has a fascination with antiquated mystery novels of the so-called Golden Age, like Ellery Queen and especially Earl Der Biggers’s Charlie Chan series. So when I saw that Otto Penzler was bringing out a paperback edition of the first Mr. Moto novel I bought it immediately as a gift, knowing that he’d probably pass it right back for me to read as soon as he was done with it. Though I’ve never seen any of the Mr. Moto movies starring Peter Lorre I […]