While Mr Moto is widely seen as following in the footsteps of Charlie Chan, it was actually James Lee Wong (Mr Wong) who was Chan’s immediate successor. Mr Wong first appeared in 1934, a year before Moto, in Colliers magazine in a story titled Medium Well Done. It then continued as a series of another eleven stories that ran through until 1938.
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