Out of the mystic East came Lona Deeping, shockingly beautiful, warmly gracious, to win the love of Police Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick. No wonder Kirk refused to credit the Spider’s veiled hints — or Richard Wentworth’s open warnings — that Lona was the tool of The Man in the Cowl. For this new-style crime king made the act of murder sacred in the minds of the thousands who worshipped Kali in the strangest temple ever built in New York City!
