(Please be aware that reviews by a 'Kindle Customer' - typically entitled 'Entertaining Mystery Listening', and featuring emojis - frequently contain major plot spoilers.) A wealthy Chinese merchant, Fan Lung, is found dead at his home in London's Chinatown... A visiting karate master from Japan is arrested for murder... The Japanese man begs Sherlock Holmes to help prove his innocence... But all the evidence seems to show that the martial arts expert is truly guilty... But then a strange looking beggar appears... He makes certain people extremely uneasy... As Holmes doggedly pursues the truth behind Fan Lung's bloody demise... This is the 18th story in the Sherlock Holmes pastiche series (by Ben Stevens - author of The A Murderer's Tale )