Paul Harley, a private investigator in Chancery Lane, is consulted by Colonel Menendez, who fears a voodoo curse followed him from Cuba to his rented English house, Cray’s Folly. Harley and his friend Knox go down to investigate, among a vampire bat, the alluring Madame de Staemer, Val Beverley and an unseen enemy called M’kombo.
Atmospheric 1921 detective fiction by the creator of Fu-Manchu, whose racial attitudes are those of its day. Download the free EPUB.