author
Earl Derr Biggers
1884–1933
Best remembered as the creator of Charlie Chan, he brought a thoughtful, unconventional detective into popular mystery fiction. Before that breakthrough, he worked as a journalist and built a reputation for lively stories that often moved easily onto stage and screen.
6 Audiobooks
Seven Keys to Baldpate
by Earl Derr Biggers
苦悶の欄
by Earl Derr Biggers
Love Insurance
by Earl Derr Biggers
Inside the Lines
by Earl Derr Biggers, Robert Welles Ritchie
The Agony Column
by Earl Derr Biggers
The house without a key
by Earl Derr Biggers
About the author
Born in Warren, Ohio, in 1884, Earl Derr Biggers studied at Harvard and then worked in journalism, including newspaper writing and drama criticism. That background helped shape the clear, brisk storytelling style that would define his fiction.
He is most closely associated with Charlie Chan, the Honolulu detective who first appeared in The House Without a Key in 1925. The character became the center of a successful mystery series and later inspired many film and radio adaptations, making Biggers one of the most widely recognized crime writers of his era.
Biggers also wrote plays and other popular fiction, including Seven Keys to Baldpate, another work that found a large audience through adaptation. He died in Pasadena, California, in 1933, but his books remain part of the long history of American popular mystery writing.