The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on Limehouse in the East End of London.

It was a popular success and features several of Burke's best-known stories such as The Chink and the Child and Beryl and the Croucher.

"You have not read a paragraph of Thomas Burke's 'Limehouse Nights' before you realize that you are in the presence of a master tale teller. For here is a man whose qualities of greatness are so apparent that it takes not the least discernment to di...