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Mystery, magic and an element of indefinable horror enter into this story by the author of the Fu Manchu tales. Gaston Max, a famous Parisian detective, Inspector Dunbar of Scotland Yard, and Dr Keppel Stuart, an obscure London practitioner with an unusual knowledge of poisons, are all concerned in the case of the golden scorpion. For a time no one of them knows who or what the scorpion may be, altho this symbol is known in some way to be associated with a series of mysterious deaths in both London and Paris. Dr Stuart is drawn into the case when the beautiful and alluring Mlle Dorian comes to him as a patient. As in the author’s other stories there is a strong tinge of the oriental.
“A good mystery story.”
+ Booklist 17:75 N ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 51:582 Jl ’20 130w + N Y Times 25:22 Je 27 ’20 530w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ Pub W 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 360w Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 220w
“It is a relief to have mystery and magic mixed up with good detective work after so great a glut of German espionage, and the reader will find the golden scorpion in a pleasing variety of unusual and unexpected situations.”