Review: A Great Mystery for Late at Night
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2012
If you have never read Sax Rohmer before and are thinking of reading one of his books, this is a great novel (along with "The Golden Scorpion") with which to start. Sax Rohmer's "The Green Eyes of Bst" (free for Kindles) is a fast paced mystery which contains all of the mysterious elements of the classical mystery: the naive hero, the mysterious women, dark nights and a lonely house, the "mad doctor," a mysterious car, Scotland Yard and, of course, a body found in a crate. With the body is found a statue of a woman with the head of a cat, and we are left with the question: what is the significance of this mysterious statuette of the Goddess Bst? This is a well constructed mystery and it is definitely worth the read; if you have a Kindle, the price is right!  However, Sax Rohmer is most famous for creating the infamous character of Fu Manchu who later became even more famous in the black and white movies of the 30's. Fu Manchu was portrayed in various films by Boris Karloff in the 1930's. Several of the first Fu Manchu novels are also available for free on the Kindle or search out the actual books in used bookstores - they are worth the time to discover the great, intellectual (and stereotypical) evil genius who is Fu Manchu.