title: The Yellow Claw
text: # The Yellow Claw
  
  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.
  
  ## Film adaptation
  
  The novel was the basis for the 1921 British silent film The Yellow Claw.
  
  