The Chinese Parrot Charlie Chan 2

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543248284

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The Chinese Parrot (Charlie Chan #2) by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

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. 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.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667660585

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The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

The second of the Charlie Chan mysteries bring the Honolulu detective to mainland California, where he investigates crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot.

Author : D. Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:68972979

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The Chinese Parrot by D. Biggers Pdf

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Mint Editions (Voices from Api
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798888975527

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The Chinese Parrot: A Charlie Chan Mystery by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : New York : Avon
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1007711997

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The Chinese Parrot : a Charlie Chan Mystery by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1097346528

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The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Earl Derr Biggers was an American novelist and playwright. He is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473371569

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Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. “Charlie Chan Carries On” is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series. Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in Behind That Curtain, is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place instead. Earl Derr Biggers was born on 26th August 1884 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Biggers received his further education at Harvard University, where he developed a reputation as a literary rebel, preferring the popular modern authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis to the established figures of classical literature. Following in their footsteps upon graduating, he himself began a career as a popular writer, penning humorous articles and reviews for the Boston Traveler. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. The first Chan story “The House Without a Key” (1925) was published as a serialised story in the Saturday Evening Post and then released as a novel in the same year. Biggers went on to write five more Chan novels and all were licensed for movie adaptations by Fox Films. These films were hugely popular with several different actors taking the lead role of Chan. Eventually; over 40 films were produced featuring the character. Biggers only saw the early on-screen successes of Charlie Chan due to his death at the age of only 48 from a heart attack in April 1933.

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798574436707

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The Chinese Parrot Illustrated by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

A mysterious millionaire with a penchant for strange pets takes a flyer on a string of pearls and finds that death is the broker. "Charlie Chan embarks on an incognito journey across the desert to find the answer to a question - a question posed by a dead parrot who spoke in Chinese . . . "

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Honolulu (Hawaii)
ISBN : IOWA:31858006678381

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Charlie Chan Omnibus by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322442638

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The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf

The novel, which takes place in the 1920s Hawaii, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished in the 21st century. The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaii for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery.

Author : Yunte Huang
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393079163

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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang Pdf

Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book and Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography: "An ingenious and absorbing book…It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story." —Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time) and “a fascinating cultural survey” (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before. Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the “honorable detective” from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America’s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a “deeply personal . . . voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of story telling” (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).

Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676

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Sequels by Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband Pdf

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357383

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Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3421232

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Chan, Charlie (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OXFORD:502267024

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Keeper of the Keys by Earl Derr Biggers Pdf