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📗 This book is the second installment in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers, which concerns the significant role of the death of a parrot in the solving of a mysterious crime. Charlie Chan travels from Hawaii to California with a valuable set of pearls to oversee their transportation to a new buyer. After two mysterious deaths, he pretends to be a pidgin-speaking cook named Ah Kim and works incognito to solve a number of crimes. This story is a thrilling tale of murder and intrigue, sure to appeal to the lover of crime fiction and a veritable must-have for any collector of Earl Derr Biggers' seminal work. Other notable works by this author include: 'Seven Keys to Baldpate' (1913) and 'Fifty Candles' (1921). Earl Derr Biggers (1884 – 1933) was an American playwright and novelist. 'The Chinese Parrot' was originally published in 1926, and is proudly republished here now a new prefatory biography of the author.
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