The Chinese Parrott - Charllie Chan Mysteries

P. F. Collier and Son Company, 1926. P. F. Collier and Son Company, First Edition, First Printing, 1926. Black cloth over boards, gold design on cover, gold lettering. The Chinese Parrot is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. Spotting on front and/NO Dj. The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot. 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 shepherd the transfer of 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 with 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 underground to solve a number of crimes. P. F. Collier and Son Company,First Edition, First Printing, 1926. Very Good, two very small white spot on back cover, solid, some yellowing on free end papers, two small brown spot on back oace-down and end paper. Text is clean no writing . Black cloth over boards, gold design on cover, gold lettering.