Doorways To Danger by Mark Napier. Sam Cape, an Australian
officer is on leave from Pacific patrol duty, and picks Singapore because it’s
a big place with lots to do. Plus, he’s a friend of the local police chief.
After a night of hard drinking he wakes to find a nude blonde in his bathtub,
strangled. How did she get there? Who killed her? Then a rich British gentleman
and his daughter show up He wants him to find the murderer of his son. He’s on
vacation, he tells them, but his friend in the police department was sure he
would help them. It was just something that would interest him more than
drinking and chasing women. This was a nice little mystery with plenty of
women, Chinese Tong killers, and local crooks. My copy is the original hardback
published in the UK in 1966. I can’t find out anything about the author, and
I’m not sure this book was even published in the US, but it is a good story and
well worth searching for.
Earl Norman
The Earl Norman books are becoming extremely rare, and publishers don’t seem to be interested in reprinting the series. The only way some of us may ever have all the stories is for collectors to scan and type the stories into PDF to swap with other collectors. I have already completed PDFs of HANG ME IN HONG KONG and KILL ME IN ROPPONGI. I am working on KILL ME IN YOKOSUKA. If other collectors would do the same for some of the other books, we could eventually have PDFs of all ten books. Why not help? I can be contacted at fadingshadows40@gmail.com
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