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    Seven Keys to Baldpate
    Seven Keys to Baldpate
    Seven Keys to Baldpate
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    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    By Earl Derr Biggers

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1976
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    Earl Derr Biggers

    Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) was an American novelist and playwright. Born in Ohio, Biggers went on to graduate from Harvard University, where he was a member of The Harvard Lampoon, a humor publication for undergraduates. Following a brief career as a journalist, most significantly for Cleveland-based newspaper The Plain Dealer, Biggers turned to fiction, writing novels and plays for a popular audience. Many of his works have been adapted into film and theater productions, including the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913), which was made into a Broadway stage play the same year it was published. Towards the end of his career, he produced a highly popular series of novels centered on Honolulu police detective Charlie Chan. Beginning with The House Without a Key (1925), Biggers intended his character as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes prominent in the early twentieth century. His series of Charlie Chan novels inspired dozens of films in the United States and China, and has been recognized as an imperfect attempt to use popular media to depict Chinese Americans in a positive light.

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    • 2/5
      This is a very convoluted story which didn't grip me at any moment. Nobody knows anything, everybody hunts for a stolen treasure, and the whole story remains mysterious and boring until the very end. A waste of time.

      I listened to the audiobook, recorded by LibriVox volunteers, and as a non-native speaker, I had trouble understanding some of the chapters, due to a very strong accent of one of the narrators. This naturally added to the fact that I didn't enjoy the story.
    • 3/5
      1911 Baldpate Inn in Upper Asquewan Falls, William Magee has made an arrangement to stay at the closed mountain resort, alone.
      Then the holders of the other 6 available keys start arriving. What is it that they want, who is the real owner of the package. Is Magee the only innocent.
      An enjoyable historical mystery story
    • 4/5
      Pretty good. It's a good thing it's short, because it was right on the edge of becoming tiresome, but at it's given length it was pretty entertaining, if a bit predictable.
    • 4/5
      Good book and a decent mystery. The last 2 chapters seemed to drag on. Reaching a conclusion was drawn out.
    • 1/5
      I read three quarters of this book and then totally lost the plot. Thought that it was going to make sense but in the end it just lost me. What a waste of time!

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