Notes on Yellow Face

His invention, my ghost, by Earl Derr Biggers roams just off-camera in Technicolor or even digitalized black and white. It is a postmodern detective story to find the other self, a reflection and refraction enveloped in smoky sfumato through greasy plate glass windows. Locate him seated in the red vinyl booth under the omnipresent portrait of Mao Tse Tung. Or is he behind the butcher block cleaving roast pork and duck?