The House Without a Key (Charlie Chan, Book 1) - Softcover

Biggers, Earl Derr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0445402199 ISBN 13: 9780445402195

Publisher: Popular Library, 1986

Synopsis

Young John Quincy Winterslip, a proper Bostonian, helps Charlie Chan, the noted Chinese detective, find out who murdered genial old Dan Winterslip after entering his Waikiki Beach home without a key

About this title

About the Author

The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies. He was posthumously inducted into the Warren City Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. His novel Seven Keys to Baldpate led to seven films of the same title and at least two with different titles (House of the Long Shadows, Haunted Honeymoon) but essentially equivalent plots. George M. Cohan adapted the novel as an occasionally revived stage play of the same name. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version (one of his rare screen appearances) and the film version he later wrote (released in 1935) is perhaps the best known of the seven film versions. Biggers lived in San Marino, California, and died in a Pasadena, California, hospital after suffering a heart attack in Palm Springs, California. He was 48.

Edition details

• Publisher: Popular Library
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0445402199
• ISBN 13: 9780445402195
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240