This article is about the 1926 novel. For the 1927 film adaptation, see The Chinese Parrot (film).
1926 novel by Earl Derr Biggers
The Chinese Parrot
First edition cover
Author
Earl Derr Biggers
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Charlie Chan
Genre
Mystery Novel
Publisher
Curtis
Publication date
1926
Media type
Print (Hardback and paperback)
Preceded by
The House Without a Key
Followed by
Behind That Curtain
The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers and is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California.[1]
The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. The handsome young son of the jeweller is assigned to deliver the pearls to the financier's vacation home in a desert area of California. Because of his long association with the owner of the pearls (before joining the police force, he was her houseboy), Charlie Chan travels from Hawaii to California to also look after the pearls. After two mysterious deaths, first of a Chinese-speaking parrot and then of the household's Chinese man-of-all-work, Charlie Chan masquerades as a pidgin-speaking cook named Ah Kim and works undercover to solve the crimes. Along the way, the jeweller's son meets a beautiful young woman who works as a location scout and he decides to stay in the California desert.
^Huang, Yunte (2010). Charlie Chan, the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 41, 182. ISBN 978-0-393-07916-6.
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