In Shanghai, in his own office, the manager of the Piccadilly cinema, a Spanish citizen, Senor Toledos, was found. Unknown criminals apparently cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor. A terrible bleeding wound caused the almost instant death of the unfortunate Spaniard. The case immediately became sensational. Still - the murder of a European, a person who enjoys extraterritorial rights, inaccessible to Chinese law. A murder committed in the most mysterious and mystical setting.