The Golden Scorpion & The Yellow Claw. Sax Rohmer

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       Sax Rohmer

      The Golden Scorpion & The Yellow Claw

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      ISBN 978-80-272-4847-6

Table of Contents

       The Yellow Claw

       The Golden Scorpion

      The Yellow Claw

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       I THE LADY OF THE CIVET FURS

       II MIDNIGHT AND MR. KING

       III INSPECTOR DUNBAR TAKES CHARGE

       IV A WINDOW IS OPENED

       V DOCTORS DIFFER

       VI AT SCOTLAND YARD

       VII THE MAN IN THE LIMOUSINE

       VIII CABMAN TWO

       IX THE MAN IN BLACK

       X THE GREAT UNDERSTANDING

       XI PRESENTING M. GASTON MAX

       XII MR. GIANAPOLIS

       XIII THE DRAFT ON PARIS

       XIV EAST 18642

       XV CAVE OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON

       XVI HO-PIN'S CATACOMBS

       XVII KAN-SUH CONCESSIONS

       XVIII THE WORLD ABOVE

       XIX THE LIVING DEAD

       XX ABRAHAM LEVINSKY BUTTS IN

       XXI THE STUDIO IN SOHO

       XXII M. MAX MOUNTS CAGLIOSTRO'S STAIRCASE

       XXIII RAID IN THE RUE ST. CLAUDE

       XXIV OPIUM

       XXV FATE'S SHUTTLECOCK

       XXVI “OUR LADY OF THE POPPIES”

       XXVII GROVE OF A MILLION APES

       XXVIII THE OPIUM AGENT

       XXIX M. MAX OF LONDON AND M. MAX OF PARIS

       XXX MAHARA

       XXXI MUSK AND ROSES

       XXXII BLUE BLINDS

       XXXIII LOGIC VS. INTUITION

       XXXIV M. MAX REPORTS PROGRESS

       XXXV TRACKER TRACKED

       XXXVI IN DUNBAR'S ROOM

       XXXVII THE WHISTLE

       XXXVIII THE SECRET TRAPS

       XXXIX THE LABYRINTH

       XL DAWN AT THE NORE

       XLI WESTMINSTER — MIDNIGHT

      I

       THE LADY OF THE CIVET FURS

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      Henry Leroux wrote busily on. The light of the table-lamp, softened and enriched by its mosaic shade, gave an appearance of added opulence to the already handsome appointments of the room. The little table-clock ticked merrily from half-past eleven to a quarter to twelve.

      Into the cozy, bookish atmosphere of the novelist's study penetrated the muffled chime of Big Ben; it chimed the three-quarters. But, with his mind centered upon his work, Leroux wrote on ceaselessly.

      An odd figure of a man was this popular novelist, with patchy and untidy hair which lessened the otherwise striking contour of his brow. A neglected and unpicturesque figure, in a baggy, neutral-colored dressing-gown; a figure more fitted to a garret than to this spacious, luxurious workroom, with the soft light playing upon rank after rank of rare and costly editions, deepening the tones in the Persian carpet, making red morocco more red, purifying the vellum and regilding