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