A retired, eighty-nine-year-old detective, living in the English countryside in 1944, finds his interest piqued when a man is murdered while trying to steal a German-speaking parrot that spouts an endless stream of numbers from a young Jewish refugee.
year: 2004, 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction, private investigators, england, world war, 1939-1945, beekeepers, older men, sussex (england), fiction, boys, refugees
Editions
Chabon, Michael
Fourth Estate (2004)
A retired, eighty-nine-year-old detective, living in the English countryside in 1944, finds his interest piqued when a man is murdered while trying to steal a German-speaking parrot that spouts an endless stream of numbers from a young Jewish refugee.
Schools: 1
Chabon, Michael
Harper Perennial (2005)
Linus Steinman, a 9-year-old mute refugee from Nazi Germany, and his number-spewing parrot appear to be at the center of a mystery in the 1944 English countryside.
Schools: 0