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DOPE


By Sax Rohmer





CONTENTS


PART FIRST—KAZMAH THE DREAM-READER

CHAPTER I. A MESSAGE FOR IRVIN

CHAPTER II. THE APARTMENTS OF KAZMAH

CHAPTER III. KAZMAH

CHAPTER IV. THE CLOSED DOOR

CHAPTER V. THE DOOR IS OPENED

CHAPTER VI. RED KERRY

CHAPTER VII. FURTHER EVIDENCE

CHAPTER VIII. KERRY CONSULTS THE ORACLE

CHAPTER IX. A PACKET OF CIGARETTES

CHAPTER X. SIR LUCIEN'S STUDY WINDOW

CHAPTER XI. THE DRUG SYNDICATE


PART SECOND—MRS. SIN

CHAPTER XII. THE MAID OF THE MASQUE

CHAPTER XIII. A CHANDU PARTY

CHAPTER XIV. IN THE SHADE OF THE LONELY PALM

CHAPTER XV. METAMORPHOSIS

CHAPTER XVI. LIMEHOUSE

CHAPTER XVII. THE BLACK SMOKE

CHAPTER XVIII. THE DREAM OF SIN SIN WA

CHAPTER XIX. THE TRAFFIC

CHAPTER XX. KAZMAH'S METHODS

CHAPTER XXI. THE CIGARETTES FROM BUENOS AYRES

CHAPTER XXII. THE STRANGLE-HOLD


PART THIRD—THE MAN FROM WHITEHALL

CHAPTER XXIII. CHIEF INSPECTOR KERRY RESIGNS

CHAPTER XXIV. TO INTRODUCE 719

CHAPTER XXV. NIGHT-LIFE OF SOHO

CHAPTER XXVI. THE MOODS OF MOLLIE

CHAPTER XXVII. CROWN EVIDENCE

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE GILDED JOSS

CHAPTER XXIX. DOUBTS AND FEARS

CHAPTER XXX. THE FIGHT IN THE DARK

CHAPTER XXXI. THE STORY OF 719

CHAPTER XXXII. ON THE ISLE OF DOGS


PART FOURTH—THE EYE OF SIN SIN WA

CHAPTER XXXIII. CHINESE MAGIC

CHAPTER XXXIV. ABOVE AND BELOW

CHAPTER XXXV. BEYOND THE VEIL

CHAPTER XXXVI. SAM TUK MOVES

CHAPTER XXXVII. SETON PASHA REPORTS

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE SONG OF SIN SIN WA

CHAPTER XXXIX. THE EMPTY WHARF

CHAPTER XL

CHAPTER XLI. THE FINDING OF KAZMAH

CHAPTER XLII. A YEAR LATER

CHAPTER XLIII. THE STORY OF THE CRIME





PART FIRST—KAZMAH THE DREAM-READER





CHAPTER I. A MESSAGE FOR IRVIN

Monte Irvin, alderman of the city and prospective Lord Mayor of London, paced restlessly from end to end of the well-appointed library of his house in Prince's Gate. Between his teeth he gripped the stump of a burnt-out cigar. A tiny spaniel lay beside the fire, his beady black eyes following the nervous movements of the master of the house.

At the age of forty-five Monte Irvin was not ill-looking, and, indeed, was sometimes spoken of as handsome. His figure was full without being corpulent; his well-groomed black hair and moustache and fresh if rather coarse complexion, together with the dignity of his upright carriage, lent him something of a military air. This he assiduously cultivated as befitting an ex-Territorial officer, although as he had seen no active service he modestly refrained from using any title of rank.

Some quality in his brilliant smile, an oriental expressiveness of the dark eyes beneath their drooping lids, hinted a Semitic strain; but it was otherwise not marked in his appearance, which was free

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