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The Black Camel Return to top of page
  • "Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate."
  • "Can cut off monkey's tail, but he's still monkey."
  • "The wages of stupidity, is hunt for new job."
  • "Always harder to make murder secret, than for egg to bounce on sidewalk."
  • "Assault and battery not permitted without license from boxing commission."
  • "Sometimes very difficult to pick up pumpkin with one finger."
  • "Alibi have habit of disappearing, like whole in water."
  • "Even bag-pipe will not speak when stomach is empty."
  • "Way to find resistant rabbit is to turn rabbit lose, and watch."
  • "When conscience try to speak, telephone out of order."
  • "Even wisest man sometime mistake bumble bee for blackberry."
  • "Soap and water never can change perfume of billy goat."
  • "Only very cleaver man can bite pie without breaking crust."
  • "Never boast about egg until after eggs birthday."
Charlie Chan In London
  • "Front seldom tell truth. To know occupants of house, always look in back yard."
  • "Little things tell big story."
  • "Englishman mind own business, not always Chinaman."
  • "Talks, are like noble animal, unchecked they run away causing painful smashup."
  • "Murder not very good joke, quite un-funny."
  • "Case, like inside of radio, manny connections not all related."
  • "If you want wild bird to sing, do not put him in cage."
Charlie Chan in Paris
  • "It is always good fortune to give alms upon entering a new city."
  • "Youth, tonic for old blood."
  • "Mud turtle in pond, more safe than man on horse-back."
  • "Joy in heart more desirable than bullet."
  • "Kindness in heart, better than gold in bank."
  • "Must turn up many stones, to find hiding place of snake."
  • "Important fox must not know hounds pursue."
  • "Only foolish man waste words when argument is lost."
  • "Murder - Perfect case, like perfect doughnut, has hole...optimist only sees doughnut, pessimist see hole."
  • "Silence, big sister to wisdom."
  • "Hasty conclusion, like gun powder, easy to explode."
  • "Little keyhole, big friend to stupid detective."
  • "Faith is best foundation for happy future."
  • "Cannot see contents of nut, until shell is cracked."
Charlie Chan in Egypt
  • "Drop of plain water on thirsty tongue, more precious than gold in purse."
  • "Insignificant mole hill sometime more important than conspicuous mountain."
  • "Waiting for tomorrow, waste of today."
  • "Cannot read printing in new book until pages cut."
  • "Theory, like mist on eye glasses, obscure facts."
  • "Hasty conclusion, easy to make, like hole in water."
  • "Kind thoughts add favorable weight in balance of life and death."
  • "Admitting failure like drinking bitter tea."
  • "Journey of life like feather on stream, must continue with current."
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
  • "Holiday mood, like fickle girl, privilege to change mind."
  • "Old excuse like ancient billy goat, has whiskers."
  • "Motive like end of string, tied in many knots. End may be in sight but hard to unravel."
  • "Silence best answer when uncertain."
  • "Dreams, like good liar, distort facts."
  • "Cold omelet like fish out of sea, does not improve with age."
  • "Hasty conclusion like hind leg of mule, kick backward."
  • "Beauty of poppy conceal sting of death."
  • "Shot in dark sometime find eye of bull."
  • "Soothing drink like summer shower, bring grateful relief."
  • "Only foolish dog persue flying bird."
Charlie Chan's Secret
  • "Mysterious shadows of night, cling to old house like moss on tombstone."
  • "Greetings at end of journey, like refreshing rain after long drought."
  • "Best place for skeleton, is in family closet."
  • "If strength were all, tiger would not fear scorpion."
  • "Perhaps womans intuition, like feather on arrow, may help flight to truth."
  • "Boy Scout knife, like ladies hair pin, have many uses."
  • "Necessity mother of invention, but sometime step-mother of deception."
  • "When pilot unreliable, ship cannot keep true course."
  • "Finding web of spider does not prove which spider spin web."
  • "Wheel of fate has many spokes."
  • "When weaving nets, all threads count."
  • "Unknown danger, like summer lightning, strikes when least expected."
  • "Hasty deduction, like ancient egg, look good from outside."
  • "With proper lever, babys fingers can move mountain."
Charlie Chan at the Circus
  • "One small wind can raise much dust."
  • "Earthquake may shatter the rock, but sand upon which rock stood, in same old place."
  • "Never believe nightmare no matter how real it may seem."
  • "Skeletons in closet always speak loudest to police."
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
  • "Murder without blood stains, like Amos without Andy, most unusual."
  • "When player cannot see man who deal cards, much wiser to stay out of game."
  • "Suspicion often father of truth."
  • "No man is poor who have worthy son."
  • "Hasty conclusion like toy balloon, easy blow up, easy pop."
  • "Surprise attack often find enemy unprepared."
  • "Long road sometime shortest way to end of journey."
  • "Foolish rooster who stick head in lawn mower, end in stew."
  • "Innocent grass may conceal snake."
  • "Man who flirt with dynamite sometime fly with angels."
  • "Roots of tree lead in many directions."
  • "Man with gun like lightning, never strike twice in same place."
  • "Useless talk like boat without oar, get no place."
  • "Truth sometimes like stab of cruel knife."
  • "Good wife is best household furniture."
Charlie Chan at the Opera
  • "Politeness golden key that open many doors."
  • "Luck, happy combination of foolish accident."
  • "Small things, sometime tell large stories."
  • "Madam's voice, like Monastery bell- when ringing must attend."
  • "Puppy love very expensive past-time."
  • "Roses in romance like tenor in opera, sing most persuasive love song."
  • "Bouquet, like summer tourist on wrong train, evidently suffer switch in destination."
  • "Disloyalty of husband sometime ample provocation for revenge."
  • "Sometime jewel found in ashes."
  • "Humility, only defense against rightful blame."
  • "Voice from back seat sometime very disconserting to driver."
  • "Man who ride on merry-go-round often enough, finally catch brass ring."
  • "Madness twin brother to genius, because each live in world created by own ego...one sometime mistaken for other."
  • "Unwise officer who eat apple not yet ripe, get official tummy ache."
  • "When fear attack brain, tongue wave distress signal."
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  • "Fish in sea like flea on dog, always present but difficult to catch."
  • "Truth, like football, receive many kicks before reaching goal."
  • "A good hunter never warn tiger of trap."
  • "Hasty accusaion like long shot on horse race, odds good but chance is doubtful."
  • "When all players hold suspicious cards, good idea to have joker up sleeve."
  • "Envelope, like skin on banana, must be removed to digest contents."
  • "Hope is sunshine which illuminate darkest path."
  • "Only foolish man will not acknowledge defeat."
  • "Danger, like red light on end of moving train, now safely past ."
  • "Better for Oriental to lose life than to lose face."
Charlie Chan on Broadway
  • "Feel like sparrow pearched on limb with peacock's."
  • "New York like mouth of great river, many reefs in channel to wreck small sight-seeing boat from Honolulu."
  • "Camera remember many things human eye forget."
  • "No poison more deadly than ink."
  • "Murder case like revolving door, when one side close, other side open."
Charlie Chan in Monte Carlo
  • "Destination never reached by turning back on same."
  • "Fortunately, assasination of French language, not serious crime."
  • "Tongue often hang man quicker than rope."
  • "Questions are keys to door of truth."
  • "Car with new spark plug like flea on puppy dog, make both most active."
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
  • "Bills sometimes more difficult to collect than murder clues."
  • "When money talk, few a deaf."
  • "Opinion, like tea-leaf in hot water, both need time for brewing."
  • "Making bed-fellow of serpent, no guarantee against snake bite."
  • "Caution, very good life insurance."
Charlie Chan in Reno
  • "Man yet to be born who can tell what woman will or will not do."
  • "Very difficult to believe ill of those we love."
  • "Words cannot cook rice."
  • "If want wild bird to sing, do not put him in cage."
  • "When searching for needle in haystack, haystack only sensible location."
  • "Lady using new psycology on wrinkles, scares them away."
  • "Sometimes must strike innocent to catch guilty."
  • "Sometimes tears from woman, very happy sign."
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
  • "Unhappy news, sometimes correct itself next day."
  • "Sometimes black magic very close relative to black mail."
  • "Do not challenge super-natural unless armed with sword of truth."
  • "If request music, must be willing to pay for fiddler."
  • "To destroy false prophet, must first unmask him before eyes of believers."
  • "Father who depends on son, is happy or foolish, depending on son."
  • "Little mouse lucky his clothes do not fit elephant."
  • "Favorite past-time of man, is fooling himself."
  • "If befriend donkey, expect to get kicked."
  • "Criminal egotist find pleasure in laughing at police."
  • "Carelessness may prove blessing in disguise."
  • "Silver-tip wand more prolific than silk-worm."
City in Darkness
  • "Birds never divide worm, until safe in nest."
  • "Patience big sister to wisdom."
  • "A wise man question himself, a fool others."
  • "Acid very poor oil to loosen stuborn tongue."
  • "Truth is only path out of tangled web."
  • "To describe bitter medicine will not improve its flavor."
  • "Wise man has said, beware of spider who invite fly in to parlor."
Charlie Chan in Panama
  • "Thousand friends too few, one enemy, one too many."
  • "Man without relatives is man without trouble."
  • "Much better to let cat out of bag than to drown same."
  • "When prepared for worse can hope for best."
  • "Young brain like grass, need dew of sleep."
  • "Truth win more friendship than lies."
  • "Inside pocket like vault of National Bank."
  • "Bad alibi like dead fish, cannot stand test of time."
  • "No heart strong enough to stop bullet."
  • "Features as familiar as markings on bad penny."
  • "Nerves make time crawl backward."
  • "Patience lead to knowledge."
  • "Precaution much safer than daring."
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
  • "Sometimes quickest way to brain of young sprout is by impression on other end."
  • "Better ten times a victim, than let one man go hungry."
  • "Truth, like oil, will in time rise to surface."
  • "To speak without thinking is to shoot without aiming."
  • "Life has been risked for jewels far less valuable than friendship."
  • "Hours are happiest when hands are busiest."
  • "Man can more safely search for gold if world thinks he dig ditch."
  • "Elusive off-spring like privacy, sometimes hard to find."
  • "Thread of evidense, weaker than thread to find pocket."
  • "Explanation like skin of sensitive woman, very thin."
  • "One cloud does not make a storm, nor, one falsehood criminal."
  • "Better a father lose his son than a detective his memory."
  • "In darkness, sometimes difficult to distinguish hawk from vulture."
  • "Memory of number two son still elusive, like soap in bath tub."
  • "After wedding bells, prefer no phone bells."
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
  • "Only very foolish mouse, make nest in cats ear."
  • "Any powder that kills fleas, is good powder."
  • "Knowledge only gained through curiosity."
  • "Mice only play, when cat's supposed to be in bed."
  • "Old solution, Doctor, sometimes like ancient egg."
  • "Every bird seek its own tree, never, tree the bird."
  • "Suspicion is only toy of fools."
  • "Mock insanity, not always safe alibi."
  • "Justice, like virtue, brings its own reward."
  • "Knowledge short, suspicion long."
  • "Small nose for news...,first aroma of suspicion."
Murder Over New York
  • "British tenacity with Chinese patience, like Royal Flush in poker game, unbeatable."
  • "Coincidence, like ancient egg, leave unpleasant odor."
  • "Thought at present, like dog chasing own tail, getting no place."
  • "Nut easy to crack, often empty."
  • "Aid from number two son like interest on mortgage, impossible to escape."
  • "Fresh weed better than wilted rose."
  • "Person who ask riddle should know answer."
  • "Happy solution never see light if truth kept in dark."
  • "One man with gun have more authority than whole army with no ammunition."
  • "Wishful thinking sometime lead to blind alley."
  • "Important events, like insistant alarm clock, need attention."
  • "Stove most excellent weapon, good for cooking goose."
  • "Confidence of favorite son like courage of small boy at dentist, most evident after tooth extracted."
Dead Men Tell
  • "Man has learned much, who has learned how to die."
  • "Message, sometime hide in madness of practicle joke."
  • "Man with ear to keyhole, show excessive curiosity."
  • "Trouble, like first love, teach many lessons."
  • "Inside pocket like vault in bank."
Charlie Chan in Rio
  • "Pretty girl like lap dog, sometimes go mad."
  • "Sweet wine often turn nice woman sour."
  • "Number two son behave about hot music like corn over hot fire....pops."
  • "Slippery man sometimes slip in own oil."
  • "To one who kill, life can suddenly become most precious."
  • "Fruits of labor sometimes very bitter."
Castle in the Desert
  • "Man who walk, have both feet on ground."
  • "Man without enemies, is like dog without fleas."
  • "Man who fears death, die thousand times."
  • "Caution sometimes mother of suspicion."
  • "Friend of stars, may posses unusual wisdom."
  • "Glamour boy who jump to conclusion, sometime get hair messed up."
  • "Sharp wit, sometimes better than deadly weapon."
  • "Timid man, never win lottery prize."
  • "Elaborate excuse, seldom true."
Charlie Chan in The Secret Service
  • "When alibi pushed at me, always suspect motive in wood pile."
  • "Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole. No good."
  • "Children go through life with same tact as tornado."
  • "If man place himself in way of suspicion, must not be surprised if he receive poke in eye."
  • "Suspicion like rain, fall upon just and unjust."
The Chinese Cat
  • "Bull in China Shop is gentle creature compared to detective who make pass at man wearing glasses."
  • "Expert is man who make quick decision, and is sometimes right."
  • "Once you have large family, all other troubles mean nothing."
Meeting at Midnight
  • "Shadey business do not make for sunny life."
The Jade Mask
  • "No barber shave so close but that another barber find some work to do."
  • "Murder knows no law of relativity."
The Scarlet Clue
  • "Contents of safe only secure so long as someone outside watching safe."
  • "So many fish in fish market, even flower smell same."
The Shanghai Cobra
  • "Even wise man cannot fathom depths of womans smile."
  • "Cannot sell bear skin before shooting bear."
  • "Mice will never play as long as cat in house."
The Red Dragon
  • "Hens sit often, but they lay eggs."
  • "Unusual things always very good clue."
  • "Like Chinese army, Chinese ink cannot be wiped out."
Dark Alibi
  • "One small wind can raise much dust."
  • "Earthquake may shatter the rock, but sand upon which rock stood, in same old place."
  • "Never believe nightmare no matter how real it may seem."
  • "Skeletons in closet always speak loudest to police."
Shadows Over Chinatown
  • "As nurse say to father of newborn twins - pleasure is double."
  • "Number 2 son like flea on dog, always must have fine tooth comb to find same."
  • "Perhaps voice from dim past may lift curtain to oblivian."
  • "Deception is bad game for amature."
  • "Never bait trap with wolf to catch wolf."
  • "A detective is like influenza, he cover wide territory but accomplish very little good."
  • "Cornered rat usually full of fight."
Dangerous Money
  • "Good wifes place should be at mates elbow in time of trouble."
  • "Tiger going away from village is never feared."
  • "Guilty mind sometime pinch worse than ancient boot of torture."
  • "Hasty man drink tea with fork."
  • "Kangaroo reaches destination also by leaps and bounds."
  • "Good hunter never break twig under foot."
The Trap
  • "Mistake, sometimes bring most fortunate relief."
  • "Best layed plans of mice and men, go a little bit haywire."
  • "Puzzle always deepest near the center."
  • "Leisurely hunter have time to stalk prey, but hunter in haste must set trap."
The Chinese Ring
  • "Death is the reckoning of heaven."
  • "Strange events permit themselves the luxury of occuring in strange places."
  • "Politeness golden key to many doors."
  • "How loud it thunder, how little it rain."
  • "Men who ride on tiger cannot dismount."
  • "Luck, happy chain of foolish accidents."
  • "A woman not made for heavy thinking, but should always decorate scene like blossom of plum."
  • " Man who ride on merry-go-round all the time, sooner or later must catch the brass ring."
Docks of New Orleans
  • "He who takes what ever God sends, with smile, has learned lifes hardest lesson."
  • "Sometimes most essential clue, very difficult to find."
  • "Death, one appointment we must all keep, and for which no time is set."
  • "Looks, sometimes, are frightful liar."
  • "Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end."
  • "Ignorance, always loud in argument."
  • "He who squanders today talking about yesterdays triumphs, have nothing to boast about tomorrow."
  • "Must gather at leisure what may use in haste."
  • "It is fool in a hurry who drink tea with fork."
  • "Ship with too many pilots, sometime have difficulty reaching port."
Shanghai Chest
  • "Certain facts begin to glean clear like snow on distant mountain top."
  • "So seldom brain and beauty dance in street together."
  • "Man who have gun, either affraid or have guilty conscience."
The Golden Eye
  • "People who listen at keyholes, rarely hear good of themselves."
  • "Small things sometimes tell very large story."
  • "Small investigation sometimes bring large amount of knowledge."
  • "Little knowledge sometimes very dangerous thing."
  • "Willingness to speak not necessarily mean willingness to act."
The Feathered Serpent
  • "Man who improve house before building solid foundation, apt to run into very much trouble."
  • "A guilty conscience always first to speak up ."
The Sky Dragon
  • "Tired man's idea sometimes very much like child's nightmare, easily dispelled by bright light of day."
  • "Innocent act without thinking, guilty always make plans."
  • "Justice must be blind to friendship."
  • "Ideas planted too soon, often like seeds on winter ground, quickly die."
  • "Much like photographic negative, proper development sometime bring very interesting things to light."
  • "Death, even to deserving, never pleasant."
© 2000 - 2002, Steve Damascus
 
 
 
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