The Fire Goddess

Jamaica - the conflux of Western realism and jungle voodoo - was the perfect setting for Sumuru, the beautiful, amoral genius long sought by Scotland Yard and the FBI - the women to whom all men were as moths to a flame. Few knew from whence she came or the secret of her power, and those that had known died. Others feared to know.
But there were two men who wanted to know more. Inspector Gilligan of Scotland Yard, who was intrigued by the age-old significance of a lizard nailed to a man's door, and Lance Harkness, for whom life held but two things, science and the women he loved. And Sumuru threatened destruction to both.
Sumuru's popularity with readers of crime fiction now rivals that of Rohmer's other great creation - Fu Manchu, and this story of taut suspense tells another chapter from her illustrious career.