# China Pete — A Bid for Fortune character guide

> China Pete in A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pete

**First appearance:** 0007-part-i-vii-port-said-and-what-befell-us-there

## Snapshot

A dying Chinese criminal who clutches a carved wooden stick worth ten millions and warns that Dr. Nikola has hunted it for five years.

## Who they are

China Pete lies dying with the key to a vast fortune in his hand, a talisman the priests of Peking's Llamaserai have tried six times to kill him for. He reveals that Nikola has schemed for five years to obtain it, and that the murder on board ship was tied to it. His confession plants the object of the novel's central pursuit and sketches Nikola's reach before the reader ever meets him.

## In the story

### [V: The Islands and What We Found There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-ii-v-the-islands-and-what-we-found-there)

A man Wetherell defended in a murder trial; dying, he gives Wetherell a black stick and warns him about Dr. Nikola.

## Links

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