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Sax Rohmer

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu

eBook (Prabhat Prakashan Feb. 3, 2017)
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
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