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Seven Keys to Baldpate
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After years of churning out potboilers, novelist Billy Magee decides that he needs just two months of solitude to produce a work of true literary merit. New York is too crowded with distractions, so he embarks on a journey to the loneliest place he knows: a rambling summer resort that has been closed for the winter. He plans to live by candlelight and firewood for the next eight weeks, with nothing to do but write.
On his very first night at Baldpate Inn, however, Magee receives an unwelcome visitor. For some reason, the man is very nervous. Could it have something to do with the revolver clutched in his hand?
Magee was promised the only key to the hotel, but five more peculiar interlopers arrive, each with a key. It is clear that the author is caught up in a strange and baffling plot. The question is, who's pulling the strings? Magee hopes to find out soon, lest he turn up dead before he can start his book.
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“The bad stuff: It never starts, at least that is how it feels to read it.
The good stuff: It's short. Not short enough though.
I have to say: avoid at all costs.”
“This is another one I'm not going to give a star rating to. In actuality, it wasn't very good. HOWEVER, I am currently staying at THE Baldpate Inn, named after the book, in Colorado. If you ever get the chance, this is an incredible historic inn, beautiful and charming with a wonderful mountain view. Plus they make banger muffins.
THE GOOD
-Vibes. I'm a sucker for the classic strangers-meeting-in-an-isolated location trope.
-It's the oldest book I've read in a long time, which is fun :)
THE BAD
-The plot wasn't...great? Also it didn't really exist that much?
-Who are all these people?
Idk I'm really tired, plus I'm on vacation. Just read it if you'd like, or not.”
About Earl Derr Biggers
Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933) was an American author best known for his series of detective novels featuring the character Charlie Chan. Born in Ohio, Biggers published his first novel,
, in 1913. The book inspired many popular stage and screen adaptations as well as the name of a real resort in Colorado. Biggers’s Charlie Chan was introduced in
(1925) and appeared in a total of six books and more than four dozen films.
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