Download or read book The House Without a Key Annotated written by Earl Derr Biggers and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the hour at which she liked Waikiki best, the hour just preceding dinner and the quick tropic darkness. The shadows cast by the tall cocoanut palms lengthened and deepened, the light of the falling sun flamed on Diamond Head and tinted with gold the rollers sweeping in from the coral reef. A few late swimmers, reluctant to depart, dotted those waters whose touch is like the caress of a lover. On the springboard of the nearest float a slim brown girl poised for one delectable instant. What a figure! Miss Minerva, well over fifty herself, felt a mild twinge of envy--youth, youth like an arrow, straight and sure and flying. Like an arrow the slender figure rose, then fell; the perfect dive, silent and clean.
Download or read book The House Without a Key written by Earl Derr Earl Derr Biggers and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel, which takes place in 1920s Hawaiʻi, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished in the 21st century.The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaiʻi for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery.
Download or read book The House Without a Key Original Edition Annotated written by Earl Derr Biggers and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House Without a Key is a novel that was written in 1925 by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries written by Biggers. The novel, which takes place in 1920s Hawaiʻi, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished in the 21st century
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Download or read book The House Without a Key written by Earl Derr Earl Derr Biggers and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House Without a Key is the book that started the entire Charlie Chan phenomenon. This includes the six novels by author Earl Derr Biggers (and, later, several pastiches by other writers), the more than forty-five movies, the old-time radio shows, comic books and a daily strip cartoon, the television show in the 1950s, the animated Hanna-Barbera television show in the 1960s, and the final two movies in the 1970s and 1980s. The Hawaiian islands have a charm about them that is legendary. A number of people who have visited became so enchanted that they decided (sometimes on the spur of the moment) to stay and live there. The House Without a Key--the first Charlie Chan novel--begins with Miss Minerva Winterslip from Boston, Massachusetts, visiting two cousins of hers who have lived in Honolulu for years. She intended to visit for six weeks, then return to her hometown. Now, however, it has been ten months and she shows no indication that she is ready to return.
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Download or read book The House Without a Key written by Earl Derr Biggers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies. He was posthumously inducted into the Warren City Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. His novel Seven Keys to Baldpate led to seven films of the same title and at least two with different titles (House of the Long Shadows, Haunted Honeymoon) but essentially equivalent plots. George M. Cohan adapted the novel as an occasionally revived stage play of the same name. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version (one of his rare screen appearances) and the film version he later wrote (released in 1935) is perhaps the best known of the seven film versions. Biggers lived in San Marino, California, and died in a Pasadena, California, hospital after suffering a heart attack in Palm Springs, California. He was 48.
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