The house without a key by Earl Derr Biggers

"The House Without a Key" by Earl Derr Biggers is a novel published in 1925. This first Charlie Chan mystery unfolds in 1920s Hawaiʻi, where a Boston bond trader arrives to retrieve his vacationing aunt but becomes entangled in a murder investigation. The victim, a former Boston society member, has been killed under mysterious circumstances. As the straitlaced young Bostonian assists Detective Charlie Chan, he discovers the islands' enchanting culture, encounters unexpected romance, and finds himself questioning his carefully planned future back East. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933
Title The house without a key
Original Publication New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Without_a_Key
Credits David T. Jones, Mary Meehan, Al Haines & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at www.pgdpcanada.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 86.4 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Detective and mystery stories
Subject Chan, Charlie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Subject Police -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Fiction
Subject Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 73771
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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