The Yellow Robe Murders tpb

Trade paperback. Only four men had ever been permitted a sight of the complete Todd collection of jewels. Two of them had died: one, the owner, under auspicious circumstances on the eve of showing his son, Jerry Todd, his newest acquisition - the Kathaba ruby, looted centuries before from a sacred dagoba. For six years Jerry has not been able to find the collection. A Chinese lavender jade bowl, bearing the carved Wu-Fu symbol of the five bats of good luck and longevity, found in the hands of a murdered jockey on the eve of the Kentucky Derby, gives the clew which brings a series of ruthless murders right to the door of Jerry Todd, a world wanderer, adventurer and crime investigator, who is suspected of the murders he is trying to solve. The trail leads from Kentucky to Jerry’s boarded-up, ancestral mansion on Fifth Avenue; to London, where death strikes again and again until the solution is found in the unfrequented jungles of southern Ceylon.