Publisher's Synopsis
Four brilliant men have died mysteriously--and the only clue is the carved tail of a golden scorpion left beside their bodies. The man behind the horror calls himself The Scorpion, and he is clearly a man of superior cunning. When the finest detectives of France and England--Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar--join forces to stop the Scorpion before he can add a fifth victim to his list, the twisting trail takes them from the haunts of London's underworld to the seamy opium dens of Chinatown--and from there into the Lair of the Scorpion.
