The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
By: Sax Rhomer
Dr. Fu-Manchu is the archetype of the Master Villain, a man of immense wealth and the desire for world conquest—the model for master criminals later seen in the James Bond novels and movies. Pitted against him is the English detective Nayland Smith, helped by his chemist friend Dr. Petrie. This is the first of the Dr. Fu-Manchu mysteries that gripped the imaginations of readers in 1913 and made Rohmer’s novels a bestselling phenomenon of his time.
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Sax Rhomer
Sax Rhomer is the pen name of Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959). He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Fu-Manchu. After penning Little Tich in 1911 (as ghostwriter for the music hall entertainer of the same name) he wrote the first Fu Manchu novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, first published in a serialisation from October 1912 to June 1913. The Fu Manchu stories, together with his more conventional detective series characters — Paul Harley, Gaston Max, Red Kerry, Morris Klaw (an occult detective), and the Crime Magnet — made Rohmer one of the most successful and financially well-off authors of the 1920s and 1930s. -- From Wikipedia