Title: The Shanghai gesture
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2009
Description: "A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land's End, a funk endemic to the region since the wreckage a century earlier of the ship 'The Ardent Sodomite'. Meanwhile, Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort Dr. Obregon Petrie attempt to thwart Fu Manchu's latest ploy for world domination while confronting South American piyas, matching wits with a clubfooted ex-STASI, as well as battling the latest technological crazes and their own drug dependencies."
Subjects: Fiction, Doctor Fu Manchu (Fictitious character), Narcolepsy, American wit and humor, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, humorous, Fu manchu, doctor (fictitious character), fiction
LC classification: PS3559.N335 S53 2009