The Yellow Claw is a 1915 crime novel by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, known better under his pseudonym of Sax Rohmer. The story features Gaston Max, a Parisian criminal investigator and master of disguise, and his battle with Mr. King, a master criminal similar to Rohmer's earlier character Dr. Fu Manchu. The novel was the basis for the 1921 British silent film The Yellow Claw. The Yellow Claw series chronicled the adventures of a Chinese-American...