John Meehan
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Deported from every South Sea island on which she has ever performed, sexy saloon singer Bijou Blanche winds up in Boni Komba at the Seven Sinners Café by convincing the manager that she will break only hearts, not barstools. Bijou soon charms a handsome Navy officer who falls deeply in love with the woman his superiors refer to as a naval "destroyer". When a spiteful admirer of Bijou's resorts to violence to keep the lovers apart, the glamorous...
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The story unfolds in China, where Katrin's marriage to busy M.D. Walter Fane is in trouble. Lonely and neglected, Katrin falls in love with diplomatic attaché Jack Townsend. When Walter discovers the affair, he takes Katrin inland to fight a cholera epidemic, maliciously thinking the disease will kill them both. But working together helps rebuild their marriage, until Townsend resurfaces. Now Katrin must choose.