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==Plot==
Daffy Duck is China Jones, an Irish private investigator working in [[Hong Kong]] in the [[Far East]]. At a restaurant called Lo Down, he finds a fortune cookie containing a call for help which states: "HELP!! I'm being held prisoner in a Chinese bakery. - £150 REWARD" (around £4,374 in today's money) and decides to investigate. Needing a good hot tip knowing there are thousands of bakeries in China, he sees a solo musician advertising for hot tips from a pub run by Limey Louie,
It turns out to be a trap set by Limey Louie, who has already gotten out of prison and wants vengeance on Jones, whom he blames for getting him sent up the river. Having anticipated Jones would fall for the "prisoner in a Chinese bakery" fortune, Louie disguises himself as his own wife, first roughing up Jones upon his arrival to "recount" the physical abuse the prison guards gave Louie. When Jones enquires about hot tips, Louie gives him two false clues that each lead to "No. 10, Wong Way" and "Ho Down Wharf, second sampan". In the case of the former, Jones is torched by a fire-breathing "Dragon Lady". In the case of the latter, when Jones investigates the sampan in question, someone cuts the mooring rope securing it and the sampan instantly sinks into the wharf, taking Jones with it.
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