Like many writers of the day, Lemuel L. de Bra had other jobs before coming to writing—most notably working as a Secret Service agent in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He knew crime and Chinese culture. So he wrote about it. A lot.
“Curse of the Knives” is a crime story set in a Chinese restaurant, and it features background so authentic, you know he based it on a real place he frequented. And perhaps some dishes he enjoyed eating!
"Like many writers of the day, Lemuel L. de Bra had other jobs before coming to writing—most notably
Kinley and Sweeney are Secret Service agents sent to a tiny island in the Pacific used as a checkpoi
Savage was a hard man, a big, strong, clean-shaven Englishman, Yorkshire born, and ungiven to promis
Malcolm Trent, of the firm of Hammerman, Lee and Rambaud ("Unfailing and unquestioning service" was
An incident in the life of Antoine O'Neil, honest man.
