Mysterious Book Report No. 34 – China Star
China Star by Bartle Bull Carrol & Graf, 2007, $15.95, 442 pages, ISBN 978-078671-923-5 It’s part mystery, part swashbuckler and entirely a lot of fun as it follows the adventures of a White Russian expatriate, Count Alexander Karlov, around the globe in a rollicking good adventure story called China Star by Bartle Bull. The narrative begins in Paris, France in 1922, where we are introduced to a group of penniless