Books with author Sax Rohmer

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Four men have died mysteriously, each a genius in his own field. The only clue to the murderous puzzle: a carved gold scorpion. Behind the horror is The Scorpion, a man of superior cunning. The finest detectives of France and England join forces to stop The Scorpion before he can add a fifth victim to his list and the twisting trail takes them through the haunts of London's underworld to the seamy opium dens of Chinatown...

The prolific author set up the perfect crime with no idea how to solve it and worked the case himself along with his fictional detective, Paul Harley. In Fire-Tongue, Harley sees a man die at the dinner table. (Something in the soup?) The detective's "uncanny sixth sense" tells him it was murder. But he can't prove it, let alone catch the killer. The trouble was, neither could Rohmer. And the story already had started running as a magazine serial! As Rohmer told it, he was desperately stumped when the magician and escape artist Houdini appeared at his door. Houdini slipped him - what else? - the secret way out. The story continues with all the clues, exotic suspects, slinky gowns, disguises, chases and resolutions that Rohmer's fans expected and still find in his fantastical fiction.

"There's half a score of your ancestral halls," said Julius Rohscheimer, "that I could sell up to-morrow morning!" Of the quartet that heard his words no two members seemed quite similarly impressed. The pale face of Adeler, the great financier's confidential secretary, expressed no emotion whatever. Sir Richard Haredale flashed contempt from his grey eyes—only to veil his scorn of the man's vulgarity beneath a cloud of tobacco smoke. Tom Sheard, of the Gleaner, drew down a corner of his mouth and felt ashamed of the acquaintance. Denby, the music-hall comedian, softly whistled those bars of a popular ballad set to the words, "I stood in old Jerusalem." "Come along to Park Lane with me," continued Rohscheimer, fixing his dull, prominent eyes upon Sheard, "and you'll see more English nobility than you'd find inside the House of Lords!"

In The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, terror comes to Britain when a self-centered archeologist unearths one of Islam's holiest relics -- the sacred slipper of the prophet Mohammed. Until it is returned to its rightful people, the implacable Hassan of Allepo vows his reign of death and destruction shall not cease. Behind these inhuman outrages is a secret group of fanatics. Not even the best men of Scotland Yard seem able to apprehend them. For, in some mystical way, this phantom band had never been seen or even heard . . .

It was high noon of a perfect summer's day. Beneath green sun blinds, upon the terrace overlooking the lawns, Paul Mario, having finished his lunch, lay back against the cushions of a white deck-chair and studied the prospect. Sloping turf, rose-gay paths, and lichened brick steps, hollowed with age, zigzagging leisurely down to the fir avenue, carried the eye onward again to where the river wound its way through verdant banks toward the distant town.

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. Born in Birmingham he had an entirely working class education and early career before beginning to write. His first published work was in 1903, the short story The Mysterious Mummy for Pearson's Weekly. He made his early living writing comedy sketches for music hall performers and short stories and serials for magazines. He published his first novel Pause! anonymously in 1910 and the first Fu Manchu story, The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, was serialized over 1912-13. The Fu Manchu stories, together with those featuring Gaston Max or Morris Klaw, made Rohmer one of the most successful and well-paid writers in of the 1920s and 1930s. But Rohmer was very poor at handling his wealth. His other works include: The Sins of Severac Bablon (1914), The Yellow Claw (1915), The Devil Doctor (1916), The Hand of Fu-Manchu (1917), Brood of the Witch- Queen (1918), Dope (1919) and Bat Wing (1921).

The Quest of the Sacred Slipper is one of the thrilling, exciting mysteries that made Sax Rohmer so successful. The novel, first published in book form in 1919, does not feature Rohmer's well-known evil character, Dr. Fu-Manchu (though the evil antagonist in the novel, Hassan of Aleppo resembles the doctor in more than one way), but it is exciting and intriguing, nevertheless.The book starts when a well-known archeologist comes across one of the holiest relics of the Islam, prophet Mohammed's sacred slipper. The story is narrated by Cavanagh, a journalist who inherits the responsibility for the slipper after the archeologist who found it initially gets murdered. The relic proves very difficult to keep safe, as there are two parties looking for it - the Hashishins, a group of Muslim assassins and an American burglar called Earl Dexter; so, Cavanagh and the Scotland Yard have a really hard time protecting the sacred object. To make matters worse, a mystery woman also appears in the story and nobody knows whether she is working for or against the good forces.The story is eventful and free-flowing, exciting and captivating. The style is typical Sax Rohmer - ornate and gripping, entertaining and impressive in its richness, elevating the genre of pulp fiction to the level of the finest literature. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper resembles Indiana Jones in every aspect - there is an invaluable artifact in the middle, there is magic involved or at least the parties searching for the artifact believe there is, there are chases that will keep readers at the edge of their seats and there is a satisfactory resolution to it all. If you love fast-paced action that revolves around a magical object, if you love mystery that is solved on the go, you will certainly love The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer.