The Complete Novels Of Earl Derr Biggers 11 Mystery Classics Thrillers Detective Stories

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2408 pages
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Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547812579

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The Complete Novels of Earl Derr Biggers: 11 Mystery Classics, Thrillers & Detective Stories by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels of Earl Derr Biggers" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Charlie Chan Series The House Without a Key The Chinese Parrot Behind That Curtain The Black Camel Charlie Chan Carries On Keeper of the Keys Other Novels Seven Keys to Baldpate Love Insurance Inside the Lines The Agony Column (Second-Floor Mystery) Fifty Candles Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known for his mystery novels. His first novel Seven Keys to Baldpate was a major success and it was adapted into several movies and plays. Even greater success came with his series of detective novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan. Many of his novels were made into movies.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1938 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026877011

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The Complete Novels of Earl Derr Biggers: 11 Mystery Classics, Thrillers & Detective Stories (Illustrated) by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels of Earl Derr Biggers” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Charlie Chan Series The House Without a Key The Chinese Parrot Behind That Curtain The Black Camel Charlie Chan Carries On Keeper of the Keys Other Novels Seven Keys to Baldpate Love Insurance Inside the Lines The Agony Column (Second-Floor Mystery) Fifty Candles Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known for his mystery novels. His first novel Seven Keys to Baldpate was a major success and it was adapted into several movies and plays. Even greater success came with his series of detective novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan. Many of his novels were made into movies.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2410 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547394303

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The Best Thriller Novels of Earl Derr Biggers by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

"Seven Keys to Baldpate" – A young novelist William Magee travels to the Baldpate Mountain resort, seeking for solitude and inspiration for his greatest novel yet. Soon after he gets in, he finds out that he is not the only one there, for there are seven keys to the place and seven people with various stories of why they are there. "Love Insurance" – The American branch of Lloyds' insurers is specialized in unusual policies, but one day an impoverished Lord Harrowby showed up with the strangest claim of them all. He wants an insurance against his fiancée Cynthia Meyrick breaking off their engagement. "Inside the Lines" – World War I has started, Britain has gone up against Germany, and few Americans are stranded at Gibraltar desperate to catch a boat back home. Spies are everywhere and Germans are plotting to blow up the English troop at Gibraltar. "The Agony Column" (Second-Floor Mystery) – Geoffrey West is an American in London. Since arriving he has been fascinated by the Agony Column, a personal advertisements in newspapers. One morning he spots an American tourist girl reading the same section, decides to place an ad to catch her attention, and soon they start corresponding. "Fifty Candles" – Young Winthrop is in love with Mary Wills and longs to marry her. His pursuit of her will lead him to a party in the home of a former employer, a millionaire with more enemies than friends. Millionaire is killed at the party, no one can be ruled out as a suspect, and some clues point to Winthrop. "Charlie Chan Series" - Charlie is a Chinese American detective who lives on Hawaii and works for the Honolulu Police Department, but often travels around the world investigating mysteries and solving crimes.

Author : Victor L. Whitechurch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547746911

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THE CANON IN RESIDENCE (British Mystery Classic) by Victor L. Whitechurch Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE CANON IN RESIDENCE (British Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Reverend John Smith is a conventional cleric, who learns on holiday he has been promoted to be Canon in Residence of Frattenbury Cathedral. While staying at a hotel he meets a fellow Englishman, who tells him the clergy are too divorced from reality. This stranger drugs Rev Smith and takes his clerical clothing, leaving in return his garish clothing, which Rev Smith is forced to wear for the rest of his holiday in St Moritz. However, because of this, he learns a great deal that the dog collar would have prevented. Meanwhile, the stranger adopts Rev Smith's name and goes off gambling and quaffing vast quantities of champagne in Monte Carlo, to the horror of an Englishwoman there who writes to her friends in Frattenbury about him. Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868-1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He is best known for his detective stories featuring Thorpe Hazell, the first amateur railway detective, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible. Another Whitechurch's character was the spy Captain Ivan Koravitch. His stories were admired for their immaculate plotting and factual accuracy. Whitechurch was one of the first writers to submit his manuscripts to Scotland Yard for vetting as to police procedure.

Author : Victor L. Whitechurch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547746904

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MURDER AT THE PAGEANT, DOWNLAND ECHOES & THE CANON IN RESIDENCE (3 British Mystery Classics) by Victor L. Whitechurch Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "MURDER AT THE PAGEANT, DOWNLAND ECHOES & THE CANON IN RESIDENCE (3 British Mystery Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Murder At The Pageant – The thriller revolves around mysterious murder and a jewel theft at Frimley Manor, during a pageant commemorating Queen Anne's visit to the great country estate in 1705. The Canon in Residence - The Reverend John Smith is a conventional cleric, who learns on holiday he has been promoted to be Canon in Residence of Frattenbury Cathedral. While staying at a hotel he meets a fellow Englishman, who tells him the clergy are too divorced from reality. This stranger drugs Rev Smith and takes his clerical clothing Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868-1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He is best known for his detective stories featuring Thorpe Hazell, the first amateur railway detective, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible. Another Whitechurch's character was the spy Captain Ivan Koravitch. His stories were admired for their immaculate plotting and factual accuracy. Whitechurch was one of the first writers to submit his manuscripts to Scotland Yard for vetting as to police procedure.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473371590

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Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. “Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories” is a collection of short stories, published after his death. Earl Derr Biggers was born on 26th August 1884 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Biggers received his further education at Harvard University, where he developed a reputation as a literary rebel, preferring the popular modern authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis to the established figures of classical literature. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. The first Chan story “The House Without a Key” (1925) was published as a serialised story in the Saturday Evening Post and then released as a novel in the same year. Biggers went on to write five more Chan novels and all were licensed for movie adaptations by Fox Films. These films were hugely popular with several different actors taking the lead role of Chan. They were even a success in China where the appeal of a character from the country being the hero instead of the villain appealed to film-goers. Eventually; over 40 films were produced featuring the character. Biggers only saw the early on-screen successes of Charlie Chan due to his death at the age of only 48 from a heart attack in April 1933.

Author : Jerome H. Delamater,Ruth Prigozy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313370311

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Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction by Jerome H. Delamater,Ruth Prigozy Pdf

Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints. Among the diverse perspectives are those which interrogate the way the genre reflects important social and cultural attitudes, contributes to a reader's ability to adapt to the challenges of daily life, and provides alternate takes on the role of the detective as an investigator and arbiter of truth. Part I looks at the nature of and the audience for detective fiction, as well as at the genre as a literary form. This section includes an inquiry into the role of the detective; an application of object-relations psychology to the genre; and analyses of recent literary criticism positing that traditional detective fiction contained the seeds of its own subversion. Part II applies a variety of theoretical positions to Agatha Christie and her heirs in the British ratiocinative tradition. A concluding essay positions the genre within the middle-class traditions of the novel since its inception in the eighteenth century. Of interest to all scholars and students of detective fiction and British popular culture.

Author : Jame-Books,Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520793480

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Earl Derr Biggers's Collected Works (Illustrated) by Jame-Books,Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Earl Derr Biggers was an American novelist and playwright. He is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China.This book contains (4 Works ):● Inside the Lines● Seven Keys to Baldpate● The Agony Column● Love InsuranceAnd if you enjoy this volume, don't forget to search your favorite book store for "Jame-Books" to see all the other entries of Jame-Books Publishing.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : E-Artnow
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8027332990

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SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE (Mystery Classic): Mysterious Thriller in a Closed Mountain Hotel by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

In the middle of winter a young novelist William Magee travels to a summer tourist town seeking for solitude and inspiration for his greatest novel yet. He gets to the Baldpate Mountain resort, and even though the hotel is closed he makes an arrangement with the caretaker and gets the key to the hotel. But soon after he gets in, he finds out that he is not the only one there, for there are seven keys to the place and seven people with various stories of why they are there. Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known for his mystery novels. His first novel Seven Keys to Baldpate was a major success and it was adapted into several movies and plays. Even greater success came with his series of detective novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan. Many of his novels were made into movies.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473325927

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The Agony Column (the Second Floor Mystery) by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The Agony Column (also published as Second Floor Mystery) is a romantic suspense thriller, narrated in a series of seven letters between two prospective lovers. Earl Derr Biggers was born on 26th August 1884 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Biggers received his further education at Harvard University, where he developed a reputation as a literary rebel, preferring the popular modern authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis to the established figures of classical literature. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. The first Chan story "The House Without a Key" (1925) was published as a serialised story in the Saturday Evening Post and then released as a novel in the same year. Biggers went on to write five more Chan novels and all were licensed for movie adaptations by Fox Films. These films were hugely popular with several different actors taking the lead role of Chan. They were even a success in China where the appeal of a character from the country being the hero instead of the villain appealed to film-goers. Eventually; over 40 films were produced featuring the character. Biggers only saw the early on-screen successes of Charlie Chan due to his death at the age of only 48 from a heart attack in April 1933.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547678045

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Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

In the middle of winter a young novelist William Magee travels to a summer tourist town seeking for solitude and inspiration for his greatest novel yet. He gets to the Baldpate Mountain resort, and even though the hotel is closed he makes an arrangement with the caretaker and gets the key to the hotel. But soon after he gets in, he finds out that he is not the only one there, for there are seven keys to the place and seven people with various stories of why they are there. Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known for his mystery novels. His first novel Seven Keys to Baldpate was a major success and it was adapted into several movies and plays. Even greater success came with his series of detective novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan. Many of his novels were made into movies.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975634519

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Earl Derr Biggers, Best Novels by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Earl Derr Biggers (1884 - 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. He is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China. The popularity of Charlie Chan extended even to China, where audiences in Shanghai appreciated the Hollywood films. Chinese companies made films starring this fictional character.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722204796

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The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers The novel, which takes place in 1920s Hawaii, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished in the 21st century. The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaii for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 184902510X

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Keeper of the Keys by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

In Biggers' final novel, Charlie Chan is invited to millionaire Dudley Ward's home in Lake Tahoe to try to find his missing son. However the murder of Dudley Ward's ex-wife, the soprano Ellen Landini, soon occupies his complete attention, and potential suspects abound. He examines the evidence but seems unable to persuade Ah Sing, the titular keeper of the keys, to break his loyal silence and give him the key to solving the mystery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : PSU:000060078674

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The Armchair Detective by Anonim Pdf