Biggers' third book in the Charlie Chan series involves the detective in a case that spans decades and continents, culminating in the city of San Francisco.  This novel provided the basis for the first "Charlie Chan" film to come out of Fox Film studios, Behind That Curtain (1929), a "talkie" featuring E.L. Park, whose Chan appeared onscreen for but a few minutes toward the end of the movie.  This Biggers story was later the inspiration for two other Charlie Chan movies, Charlie Chan's Chance (1932) and Murder Over New York (1940). 

The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one.  Chan carries on for a fallen colleague as the tour reaches Honolulu.  The Fox film Charlie Chan Carries On, the first movie in the Chan series, proper, starred Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. 

Keeper of the Keys was the final book written by Earl Derr Biggers before his passing a year later.  In this last written adventure, Charlie Chan travels to Lake Tahoe in California, soon becoming embroled in a case of murder there.  No film was ever based on this book, while brief elements may be detected in Charlie Chan in Reno (1939).

This collection includes The House Without a Key, Behind That Curtain, and Keeper of the Keys.  

Contained within this handsomely produced volume are five of the six Charlie Chan adventures by Earl Derr Biggers.  Included are The House Without a Key, The Chinese Parrot, Behind That Curtain, The Black Camel, and Keeper of the Keys.         

This was a highly anticipated book by Dr. Howard Berlin.  When it became available, fans of Charlie Chan were treated to a collection of information on the detective and his movies that remains unsurpassed.  Everything from A to Z, from the widely known to the trivial, is contained within the covers of this fascinating and most informative volume.          

The following two books each contain a selection from the four "Charlie Chan" stories that appeared in the short-lived Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine, four issues of which appeared between November 1973 and August 1974.  These stories featured an "updated," anachronistic Charlie Chan who solved crimes in the 1970s.  The Temple of the Golden Horde (from the May 1974 issue) and The Pawns of Death (from the August 1974 issue) were penned by Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey M. Wallmann who wrote under the pseudonym of Robert Hart Davis.         

The Charlie Chan Mystery Movie Guide features a detailed commentary, analysis, and review on each of the Charlie Chan films produced by Twentieth Century-Fox, including character studies and a detailed exploration of the themes and philosophies prevalent through the series as well as cast lists and plot synopses.  The author also offers new take on the age-old Oland vs.Toler debate.         

As a sixteen-year-old, Barbara Gregorich discovered the Charlie Chan novels of Earl Derr Biggers on the "local authors" shelf of the Warren, Ohio Public Library.  She fell in love with the wisdom, humor, and perceptiveness of the amiable Chinese-Hawaiian police detective, and she admired the author who created him.  Wanting to know more about Earl Derr Biggers and how he came to write his mysteries, Barbara Gregorich researched the Bobbs-Merrill Archives at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. There she read all the correspondence between Biggers and his editor — correspondence which brings to life the author’s struggles to satisfy the Chan-hungry public.         

We now come to a selection of books that either contain Charlie Chan-related information or feature stories inspired by the detective:

Charlie Chandler is a young female cop who has earned a promotion to detective.  It's her dream come true since her late father and grandfather were both detectives.  Both Charlie and her father were great fans of the old Charlie Chan movies, so she applies the wisdom and sayings of the old movie character as she tackles a new murder case with her new partner, Officer Mitchell Yen, a young man of Chinese ancestry.         

In the second book of this short-lived series, Charlie Chan I Love You (Charlie Chan Meets the Crypto Killer), Detective Charlie Chandler and her partner, Mitchell Yen, have three new cases as the first detectives assigned to the cases have struck out.         

"During the golden age of magazine fiction, motion pictures, and radio-roughly the 1920s through the late 1940s-three Oriental crime fighters were introduced to the American public. Through the media which they inhabited they became fictional icons in American popular culture: Honolulu Police Inspector Charlie Chan, International Secret Agent Mr. I. A. Moto, and Justice Department Agent Mr. James Lee Wong-commonly known as the Oriental Sleuths."  This book explores the origins and development of each of these three detectives.

An annotated anthology containing five classic crime novels including a Charlie Chan mystery, The House Without a Key, by Earl Derr Biggers.