Chinatown crime: born in China, Sgt. Jimmy Wentworth, a police detective on the San Francisco Chinatown squad, battled the Chinese Tongs—and some supernatural foes as well. Volume 1 chronicles the beginning of the series, along with Wentworth’s battles against Kong Gai, supreme leader of the tong. Running for 30 installments, this is one of the most-requested series to be included in The Argosy Library of pulp fiction.
Written by Sidney Herschel Small; cover by Lejaren Hiller; illustrated by Joseph A. Farren
The Argosy Library #119
The Festival of the Dead: The Complete Chinatown Cases of Jimmy Wentworth, Volume 1 (The Argosy Library) by Sidney Herschel Small contains the following stories:
- “The Festival of the Dead”
- “Crimson Circles”
- “King Cobra”
- “Death Rock”
- “The Bloody Emerald”
- “The Horns of the Dragon”
