In Earl Derr Biggers' second Charlie Chan mystery, The Chinese Parrot (1926), wall street financier P.J. Madden is dead set on buying a highly valuable and famous strand of pearls: the Phillimore Pearls. Detective Charlie Chan submitting to sentiment towards his old Hawaii employer, the pearl's seller, is roped into delivering the pearls to Madden … Continue reading Did the fictional financier P.J. Madden’s desert home in The Chinese Parrot actually exist? →