The Quest of the Sacred Slipper

The theft of a holy relic sets off a deadly plot to reclaim it in this globe-trotting adventure by the author of the Fu-Manchu novels.

Returning to England aboard the S.S. Mandalay, a journalist named Cavanagh is struck by an unsettling occurrence at Port Said, Egypt. A wounded beggar is brought aboard—his hand having been cut off—as he carried a professor's luggage. This brutal episode is only Cavanagh's first encounter with a merciless network devoted to protecting an ancient Islamic relic...