Author:Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers
(1884–1933)

Earl Derr Biggers

Works

• 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

• 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

• "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

• For those not subject to American copyright, more of his works are available at [Project Gutenberg Australia]