Author:Earl Derr Biggers
Works
edit- Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913) (transcription project)
- Seven Keys to Baldpate (play) (with George M. Cohan (1914) play based on the novel
- Love Insurance (1914) illustrated by Frank Snapp
- Inside the Lines (1915) (play)
- Inside the Lines (novel based on the play, 1915; with Robert Welles Ritchie)
- The Agony Column (1916; alternative title: Second Floor Mystery) Illustrated by Will Grefé.
- Fifty Candles (1921 serial; 1926 book) precursor to the Charlie Chan stories
- Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029 due to Renewal R273252
Charlie Chan novels
edit- The House Without a Key (1925) (transcription project)
- The Chinese Parrot (1926)
- Behind That Curtain (1928), serialized in The Saturday Evening Post starting in Vol. 200, No. 44 (April 28, 1928)(external scan)
- The Black Camel (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to Renewal R173906
- Charlie Chan Carries On (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026 due to Renewal R213428
- Keeper of the Keys (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R241203
Magazine stories
edit- "A Transaction in Sewing Machines" (ss), Los Angeles Herald Sunday Supplement, 1907
- "The Cruel Town" (1910 April, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
- "Tickling the Palate of Pegasus" (ss) The Red Book Magazine, 1909 July
- "The Bird in the Cage" (ss) The Red Book Magazine, 1909 Sept
- "The Sob Sister's Man" (ss) The Red Book Magazine, 1910 Sept
- "The Great Reader" (ss)The Red Book Magazine, 1910 Oct
- "Milly," (ss) The American Magazine 1909
- "'Admirer'" (ss) The Red Book Magazine, 1910 Nov
- "A Patriot" (ss)The Red Book Magazine, 1912 May
- "Hats" (ss) The Red Book Magazine, 1912 Sept
- "Heels" (ss) The Red Book Magazine, 1913 Feb
- "A Lost Quixote" (ss), Harper's Weekly , Aug 2, 1913
- "The Ebony Stick" (ss) Collier's weekly, Sep 4, 1916
- "Good Fishing" (ss)The Red Book Magazine, 1917 Feb
- "Soap and Sophocles" 1917 July, McClure's Magazine (ss)
- "The Red-haired Rooster of the Rapaho" (ss) The Red Book Magazine, 1918 July
- "John Henry and the Restless Sex" (ss), The Saturday Evening Post, March 5, 1921
- "Trouping With Ellen" 1922 Apr 8, The Saturday Evening Post (ss)
- "Meet the Wife" 1922 May 27, The Saturday Evening Post (ss)
- Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories (1933)
- Moonlight at the Crossroads (Saturday Evening Post, April 23 1927)
- Selling Miss Minerva (Saturday Evening Post, Feb 5 1921)
- The Heart of the Loaf (Saturday Evening Post, Aug 5 1922)
- Possessions (Saturday Evening Post, Feb 3 1923)
- The Dollar Chasers (Saturday Evening Post, Feb 16 & 23, 1924) novella
- Idle Hands (Saturday Evening Post, Jun 11 1921)
- The Girl Who Paid Dividends (Saturday Evening Post, Apr 23 1921)
- A Letter to Australia (Saturday Evening Post, Feb 11 1922)
- Nina and the Blemish (Saturday Evening Post, Aug 18 1928)
- Broadway Broke (Saturday Evening Post, Oct 7 1922)
- Longer works
- Fifty Candles (1921) (The Saturday Evening Post, May 7 & 14, 1921) Illustrated by George E. Wolfe
- "The House Without a Key" 1925 Jan 24, The Saturday Evening Post (7-part serial)
External sources
edit- For those not subject to American copyright, more of his works are available at [Project Gutenberg Australia]
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1933, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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