Anna May Wong - Mystery Queen

Not many people are aware that the legendary Anna May Wong appeared in various mysteries whose source were books or characters that have an international reputation as popular art: Earl Derr Biggers (THE CHINESE PARROT), Edgar Wallace (ON THE SPOT play and then DANGEROUS TO KNOW), Sax Rohmer (DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (A STUDY IN SCARLET), Ellery Queen (ELLERY QUEEN'S PENTHOUSE MYSTERY) and, on television, Mickey Spillane (MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE HAMMER). This accomplishment, which even Wong did not place as important, should have an appreciative statement about some of what she accomplished in her screen career. These films and books are not significant as great art, but they can be more transfixing and, oddly, more important than their artistic brethren. Many people were entertained by them and the atmosphere they provided.