The House Without a Key: Four and Counting

The first time I read Earl Derr Biggers’ The House Without a Key, I was sixteen years old. Having just received my drivers license, I drove to the Warren Public Library, where my brother and I browsed through mystery novels. That was where we discovered six mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers, creator of Charlie Chan. The books were in the “Local Authors” section because Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1884. We borrowed the first of the six books, each of them a well-worn hardback . . ....