John L. Swann 
The Tangled String [EPUB ebook] 
A Charlie Chan Mystery

I A CITY UNTO ITSELF ……………………………………………………….. 1

II AT THE END OF THE CORRIDOR …………………………………. 13

III FACES OF THE LONG DEAD…………………………………………… 23

IV A SPECIAL DELIVERY……………………………………………………… 33

V ‘THEY WERE PROFESSIONALS, MR. CHAN’………………… 45

VI A FAMILY DRAMA…………………………………………………………… 55

VII A NIGHT OF REVELS ………………………………………………………. 67

VIII OTHER NOT-SO-ORDINARY THINGS …………………………… 71

IX ‘AN INTUITION ABOUT TROUBLE’ ……………………………… 83

X ‘ON THE SUBJECT OF TOBACCO’…………………………………. 93

XI BREAKFAST AT CALLAHAN’S………………………………………. 105

XII UNINVITED MIDDAY VISITORS………………………………….. 117

XIII RESIGNED TO THE SITUATION …………………………………… 131

XIV BRODY WATKINS TRIUMPHANT………………………………… 139

XV ‘NOT JUST YET’ …………………………………………………………….. 145

XVI A SECOND POT OF TEA………………………………………………… 153

XVII THE SILVER-HAIRED MAN…………………………………………… 163

John L. Swann has worked as a broadcast journalist and in public relations and marketing. His career has included stints as a television news director and anchor and a radio anchor, reporter and talk show host whose work has been recognized by the Associated Press and the New York State Broadcasters Association. After leaving broadcasting, he served as chief of staff to the president of the State University of New York Institute of Technology where he authored From the Mills to Marcy, a history of the college. A native of the rural Midwest, he lives in Upstate New York with his wife, Patricia, whose years of encouragement were the impetus for the writing of Death, I Said, the first in a series of new Charlie Chan mysteries that continues with The Tangled String.