Thomas Burke 
Limehouse Nights [EPUB ebook] 

Limehouse Nights is a 1916 short story collection by the British writer
Thomas Burke . The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on Limehouse in the East End of London. The book 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‘.
Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Clapham Junction, London.
His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights (1916), a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. Many of Burke’s books feature the Chinese character
Quong Lee as narrator.