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Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery fiction Fiction |
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Named Person: | Charlie Chan, (Fictitious character); Charlie Chan, (Fictitious character) |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Earl Derr Biggers; Marilyn Stasio |
ISBN: | 9780897335782 0897335783 |
OCLC Number: | 798813315 |
Notes: | Originally published: 4Kids Entertainment, 1932. Introduction by Marilyn Stasio. |
Description: | vi, 279 pages ; 21 cm. |
Responsibility: | Earl Derr Biggers. |
Abstract:
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. Along the way, the jeweller's son meets a beautiful young woman who works as a location scout and decides to stay in the California desert.
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