Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Pocket 855
Year: 1952 Print: 2
Cover Price: $
Condition:  Very Good. Light wear. Reading crease
Genre: Fiction/GGA/Mystery
Pages: 198
Cover Art: 
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Terry Clane, an expert in the ways of the Orient, returns to San Francisco after another extended stay in China and is promptly picked up by the police. His former girlfriend, Cynthia Renton, is being sought for questioning. Her fiancé, Edward Harold, who has been convicted of the murder of businessman Horace Farnsworth and sentenced to the gas chamber at San Quentin, has just escaped police custody and is a fugitive. Clane, with the help of several Chinese friends, turns amateur sleuth in order to protect Cynthia and help Harold, who he believes is innocent and stands a good chance of having his conviction overturned on appeal. With the police following him, Clane uncovers another murder and leads them on a chase through the dark alleyways and secret passages of Chinatown before he solves the mystery.