Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, tells twenty-three of his stories in this new collection featuring "The Prodigal Father," "Conceit," "The Cruise of the 'Scholarship'," "A Game For Two," "A Freshman's Letter Home," "Mr. Dooley Discusses Athletics," "Mr. Dooley on Kipling," "The Harvard Man in Fiction," "The Crimesown," "The Drama and the Trust," "The Christmas Story," "A Book Review," "The Ancient Bargain," "Our Salvation," "Everyman His Own Playwright," "'X' Goes off to School," "Over Here," "Tales of a City That Was," "Going 'Down Street'," "The Money Mirage," "O'Grady of the Buttons," "The Last Leaf," and "John Henry and the Restless Sex."