The Sleeping Venus It appeared to be a life-size porcelain figure, carefully painted and of incredible beauty. Yet it masked the treacherous work of a master of terror! Frozen on the carved altar, as cold as the clay she was arranged to represent, dr. Petrie's beautiful daughter, Fleurette, slept as one dead. While somewhere in the fog strewn corners of London, her fiancée, Alan sterling, and the fearless commissioner Nayland Smith raced against magic and time to unravel the threads of her mysterious disappearance. Each step bringing them closer to death on--The Trail of Fu Manchu