Books with author Sax ROHMER

The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu'; published in 1913; is the first novel in writer Sax Rohmer's 'Dr. Fu Manchu series'. It collates various short stories published in the year preceding its first publication. '"A GENTLEMAN to see you; Doctor."From across the common a clock sounded the half-hour."Ten-thirty!" I said. "A late visitor. Show him up; if you please."I pushed my writing aside and tilted the lamp-shade; as footsteps sounded on the landing. The next moment I had jumped to my feet; for a tall; lean man; with his square-cut; clean-shaven face sun-baked to the hue of coffee; entered and extended both hands; with a cry:"Good old Petrie! Didn't expect me; I'll swear!"It was Nayland Smith—whom I had thought to be in Burma!' -an excerpt

A non-stop Sax Rohmer yarn. A slipper believed to belong to the prophet Mohammed has been stolen by a British archaeologist and a Muslim sect are after all who come into contact with it, the leader of the sect Hassan of Aleppo, is very much a stand in for Rohmer most famous creation Fu Manchu. The complexity of the schemes to recover and steal the slipper are complicated even more by an American gangster, who is also after it, for his own ends. The who thing is totally unbelievable, and probably racist, but darned good fun.

Dope, a Story of Chinatown, is a non-Fu Manchu novel that marks the first appearance of Chief Inspector Red Kerry. Kerry is a smart cop who uses his brain as well as his brawn to outwit and capture the criminals that threaten his city and its people. He is a physically tough man with red hair (Rohmer plays up the description more than once during the book). He brooks very little BS from anyone including his fellow officers. Because he is incorruptible and gets results, he has the backing of his superiors...

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward better known by his pen-name, Sax Rohmer created one of literature's evilest villian in Dr. Fu Manchu (rivaling Sherlock Holmes arch villian Professor Moriarty). He published his first Fu Manchu novel in 1912. It was an immediate success, with its fast-paced story of Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie facing the worldwide conspiracy of the 'Yellow Peril'. The first three Fu Manchu books were published in the four years 1913–17; but it was not until 1931 (some fourteen years after the third book in the series) that Rohmer returned to the series with The Daughter of Fu Manchu. In the twenty-eight years from 1931 to 1959, Rohmer added no fewer than ten new books to the Fu Manchu series, meaning the series totals thirteen books in all (not counting the posthumous collection The Wrath of Fu Manchu). Swedish American actor Warner Oland played Dr. Fu Manchu in four movies from 1929-31 before leaving the role for Charlie Chan movies. The Fu Manchu series drew much criticism from the Chinese government and Chinese communities in the US for what was seeing as negative ethnic stereotyping.Sociologist Virginia Berridge notes Rohmer created a false image of London's Chinese community as crime-ridden, noting the Limehouse Chinese were one of the most law-abiding of London's ethnic minorities.

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