THE YELLOW CLAW / THE GOLDEN SCORPION - Tecno-Libro

THE YELLOW CLAW  . Writer Henry Leroux&rsquo.s receives a late-night visitor, a scantily-clad woman who suddenly dies while Leroux is getting help from the doctor who lives in the flat above. A torn message is found in the dead woman&rsquo.s hand with the hastily scribbled words, &ldquo.Mr. King.&rdquo. Inspector Dunbar is suspicious of Leroux, whose wife is supposedly visiting a friend in Paris&mdash.who hasn&rsquo.t seen her in months. Could this be a lover&rsquo.s tryst gone wrong? And what of Leroux&rsquo.s butler, Soames, who has suddenly disappeared? Famed Parisian detective, Gaston Max, is called in, but even Max finds the case particularly baffling. One thing for certain&mdash.drugs are involved, and probably opium. The elusive trail leads him to the genial Mr. Gianapolis and the Cave of the Golden Dragon, where addicts seek the solace of the pipe, and where the beautiful and imperious Mahâ.ra holds sway. But who is the elusive Mr. King, whose hand reaches out to bring deat