Charlie Chan mysteries

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...

Charlie Chan's reputation for solving the most perplexing murder cases has spread far beyond Honolulu. Having been summoned to Lake Tahoe to investigate the matter of a long-missing child, he finds himself also investigating the murder of a glamorous opera singer.