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Sax Rohmer was born on February 15th, 1883 as Arthur Henry Sarsfield in Birmingham to working class parents.Rohmer started his career as a civil servant but soon had ambitions to write full time.Not content with just fiction he wrote poetry, songs as well as comedy sketches for music hall performers. From these varied beginnings he reinvented himself as Sax Rohmer.He first published in 1903, age 20, with the short story ‘The Mysterious Mummy’ which was published in the magazine Pearson’s Weekly.Rohmer published his first book Pause! anonymously in 1910 and followed this, in 1911, with a stint as ghost-writer on the autobiography of Little Tich, the famous music hall entertainer.The serialization of his first Fu Manchu novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, from October 1912 to June 1913 brought him instant success.The first three Fu Manchu books were published in the four years 1913–1917. Rohmer then put the character on hiatus whilst he attended to other works and characters. It was only after a 14-year absence in 1931 that Rohmer added a fourth to the series with The Daughter of Fu Manchu.The incredible commercial success of Fu Manchu had brought Rohmer both fame and fortune and he wanted to use both to allow him to explore and create other characters as well as other interests.Rohmer also wrote several novels of supernatural horror, including Brood of the Witch-Queen, which has been described as Rohmer's masterpiece.Unfortunately, despite his ability to generate income, Rohmer was very poor at managing his wealth and made several very poor business decisions that hobbled him throughout his career.His final success came with a series of novels featuring a female variation on Fu Manchu, Sumuru. This series would run to five novels.After World War II, Rohmer and his wife moved to New York, only returning to London shortly before his death. Sax Rohmer died on June 1st, 1959, due to an outbreak of influenza, ironically named "Asian Flu".

DOPE (A novel written by Sax Rohmer and Edited by Ron D'Alena) ** A VICTIM OF MURDER! Baronet Lucien Pyne is dead, and Mrs. Rita Irvin, former stage actress and current wife of a prominent socialite and prospective Lord Mayor of London, has gone missing! Somehow both crimes are connected to a mysterious drug trafficking syndicate that has a strangle-hold on the British upper class as well as the dregs of LIMEHOUSE! Chief Inspector Kerry is called to duty. Relentless in his pursuit of the killer and missing woman, his investigation takes him on a trail of mystery and deceit to Mrs. Sin and her House of a Hundred Raptures, Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs. . . then the trail runs cold.

Dope is a 1919 novel by Sax Rohmer set in the Limehouse area of London. It is not a Fu Manchu novel, and concerns itself with cannabis rather than opium. It is based on the story of Billie Carleton, a young English actress whose scandalous lifestyle ended with her death from a drug overdose in 1918.The novel was adapted into comics by Trina Robbins between 1981 and 1983 in Eclipse Magazine and Eclipse Monthly. IDW Publishing published a collected edition of this work in 2017, with a postface by John B. Cooke.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.In this tale, we have society and wealthy people who become ensnared in the drug culture of the early 20th century. Although there was no prohibition in the UK, they lived the same glittery life as did Americans before the Great Depression. Alcohol and drugs helped fuel the boom and the people. Kerry is trying to solve a mystery that involves a mystic/drug dealer and embroils him in a web of deceit, Chinese merchants, and passions.There are descriptions of drug use that may alienate some people (just as the casual racism may.) Some of the places and situations remind me of Conan Doyle’s story, “The Man with the Twisted Lip” where Watson accidentally meets Holmes while the former is retrieving a friend’s husband. Written almost twenty years before “Dope” it has a stark description of the opium den as seen by Watson. Doyle was at the forefront of showing the negative side of what were then fully legal drugs (both in this scene and in Watson’s continuing efforts to rid Holmes of his cocaine use.) Like Doyle before him, Sax Rohmer is writing about the damage and repercussions of drug use and addiction in a time when it was not a popular crusade.

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...

Dope is the 1919 novel by the famous writer Sax Rohmer set in the Limehouse area of London. The story concerns a famous English actress’s scandalous lifestyle full of cannabis and opium. The story is loosely based on the real-life story of the actress Billie Carleton, a young English actress whose own life ended in the tragic death at a young age from a drug overdose in 1918. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.