The Black Parrot : $b A tale of the Golden Chersonese
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The Black Parrot by Harry Hervey is a novel written in the early 20th century. It promises an exotic adventure-mystery across Southeast Asia, blending romance, crime, and colonial intrigue as a suave, secretive wanderer and a self-possessed American traveler are drawn into the legend of a master thief known as the Black Parrot.
The opening of the novel follows a bearded stranger calling himself Garon as he arrives in Surabaya with a white cockatoo and a blue slendong, trading cool politeness while quietly probing for a contact from Macassar. Over drinks, a man with scarred wrists recounts the chilling Cayenne legend of “Le Perroquet Noir,” tying recent jewel thefts to a phantom mastermind. Garon sells his bird in a Chinese shop, where a hidden message is deftly extracted from its feathers. The scene shifts to Singapore and then to Bangkok, introducing Lhassa Camber, an independent traveler captivated by Asia, and Captain Barthélemy, her worldly companion; Lhassa accepts the hospitalit
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