Further Reading
- "Perhaps unconsciously [Biggers] served the cause of international understanding—no slight service these days." The Nation 136, No. 3537 (19 April 1933): 431. (A brief obituary notice)
- Additional coverage of Biggers' life and career is contained in Contemporary Authors, Vol. 108, published by Gale Research.
- Haycraft, Howard. "VIII. America: 1918-1930 (The Golden Age)." In Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story, pp. 159-80. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1941. (An overview of American detective fiction, with a short discussion of Biggers's Charlie Chan novels. Haycraft concludes that the Charlie Chan novels are "clean, humorous, unpretentious, more than a little romantic, and—it must be confessed—just a shade mechanical and old-fashioned by modern plot standards.")
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