The Yellow ClawAt the turn of the twentieth century, the high-society leisure class of London was gripped by an unsettling epidemic: wanton abuse of opium. In this classic mystery from the author who later developed the Fu Manchu series, an intrepid detective sets out to rid the city of this scourge. |
Contents
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V Doctors Differ | 45 |
VI At Scotland Yard | 53 |
VII The Man in the Limousine | 59 |
VIII Cabman Two | 69 |
XXII M Max Mounts Cagliostros Staircase | 202 |
XXIII Raid in the Rue St Claude | 207 |
XXIV Opium | 219 |
XXV Fates Shuttlecock | 227 |
XXVI Our Lady of the Poppies | 233 |
XXVII Grove of a Million Apes | 243 |
XXVIII The Opium Agent | 255 |
XXIX M Max of London and M Max of Paris | 263 |
IX The Man in Black | 77 |
X The Great Understanding | 86 |
XI Presenting M Gaston Max | 95 |
XII Mr Gianapolis | 103 |
XIII The Draft on Paris | 110 |
XIV East 18642 | 126 |
XV Cave of the Golden Dragon | 138 |
XVI HoPins Catacombs | 152 |
XVII KanSuh Concessions | 162 |
XVIII The World Above | 172 |
XIX The Living Dead | 180 |
XX Abraham Levinsky Butts In | 189 |
XXI The Studio in Soho | 196 |
XXX Mahara | 270 |
XXXI Musk and Roses | 281 |
XXXII Blue Blinds | 292 |
XXXIII Logic vs Intuition | 299 |
XXXIV M Max Reports Progress | 304 |
XXXV Tracker Tracked | 316 |
XXXVI In Dunbars Room | 329 |
XXXVII The Whistle | 339 |
XXXVIII The Secret Traps | 348 |
XXXIX The Labyrinth | 358 |
XL Dawn at the Nore | 368 |
XLI WestminsterMidnight | 381 |
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