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The Yellow Imps

Thomas Burke

First published 1931
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"The wind blows the man in the blue mackintosh onto the road to crime. He kills a man in a room filled with Oriental idols, and they seem to follow him back out onto the wind-whipped streets." (E. A. Lovitt)

First published as "Little Golden Men" in Vanity Fair, August 1930.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1931 Cover The Pleasantries of Old Quong Constable & Co. Ltd. Collection 103
March 1931 Cover A Tea-Shop in Limehouse Little, Brown Collection 99
March 2001 Cover The Golden Gong and Other Night-Pieces Ash-Tree Press Collection 64