This classic set of tales about London's Chinatown made the Queen's Quorum list of mystery masterworks.
Several tales are fantastic.
Full half the content will be from Night Pieces. In the background you'll see a map of Limehouse. Those days fired his imagination for a lifetime. Rohmer seems willfully to have fashioned Sumuru with no detectable race. The flap copy of the 1947 Geoffrey Bles edition of Count Gobineau's Tales of Asia compares these exotic novelettes to James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan.