Charlie Chan, The House without a Key

Biggers, Earl Derr

ISBN 10: 0893870153 / ISBN 13: 9780893870157

Published by Curtis Publishing Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1977

About this Item

Fine hardcover in Near Fine dust jacket. Appears unread. No writing or other marks. Clean, bright and tight. We wrap and box our books for shipping.

Seller Inventory # 22955

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charlie Chan, The House without a Key
• Publisher: Curtis Publishing Company, Indianapolis, IN
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893870153
• ISBN 13: 9780893870157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

In a facsimile edition of their 1925 debut, Charlie Chan and his oldest son search for the murderer of a wastrel from a respected Boston family.

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.