Black Gate » Articles » Sax Rohmer’s The Adventures of Nayland Smith Sax Rohmer’s The Adventures of Nayland Smith Friday, September 7th, 2012 | Posted by William Patrick Maynard Sir Denis Nayland Smith is the largely unsung protagonist of all of Sax Rohmer’s novels and stories featuring the notorious Dr. Fu Manchu. The brilliant Chinese criminal genius constantly overshadowed the stalwart British subject who did his best to route his megalomaniacal schemes over the course of thirteen novels and four shorter works published between 1912 and 1959. The legendary villain overshadowed Sir Denis to such a degree that many readers were unaware that the author showcased Smith without his customary nemesis in three short stories published between 1920 and 1932. When Rohmer created the character a century ago, Smith was depicted as a colonial administrator, stationed in Burma and granted a roving commission by the Home Office to bring Dr. Fu Manchu to justice. His childhood friend, Dr. Petrie, played Watson to Smith’s Holmes, chronicling his adventures for posterity and ably assisting him wherever possible.

Petrie’s job was made easy in as much as Smith rarely did any actual detecting. The duo generally reacted to Fu Manchu’s latest atrocity and then spent the rest of the book trying to anticipate his next move, check him, be captured, escape, and inevitably lead a daring raid that would end in something less than a complete success. Despite it all, Smith and Petrie persevered and when Rohmer ended the initial run of the series in 1917, readers likely expected they had heard the last of Nayland Smith’s exploits. Rohmer, however, was too fond of the character to let him retire peacefully. “The Blue Monkey” was one of two original stories that appeared in the author’s first collection of short fiction, The Haunting of Low Fennel, published in the UK in 1920 by C. Arthur Pearson. It was the only title in the collection not subsequently published in the US by Doubleday in 1933 as part of Tales of East and West. The story finds Smith and Petrie on holiday in Dartmoor just after the Fu Manchu business has concluded, when they become embroiled in a murder investigation.

Smith is holidaying under the assumed identity of Mr. East. Their neighbor, Sir Jeffrey Baird, is the murder victim. The duo reluctantly responds to the call of duty when Sir Jeffrey’s daughter, Olive, finds her father’s body at Black Gap on the moors. The story is a slight one and Rohmer wastes no time casting suspicion on Sir Jeffrey’s Greek secretary, Mr. Damopolon, whose Mediterranean blood is reason enough for Dr. Petrie to suspect him. Sir Jeffrey was returning from Sotheby’s auction house when he met his fate. He was bearing the latest acquisition for his collection of curios, a blue porcelain ape of Burmese origin. He was passing by Black Gap, the opening to an ancient Roman mine, when he was murdered. Petrie examines the dead man and concludes he was struck violently on the head, but died of strangulation. The only tracks are curiously those of a small child and they move away from the body rather than following the same path. Oddly enough, there is no sign of Sir Jeffrey’s prized porcelain monkey. Petrie is initially convinced that the footprints were left by the monkey, which somehow came to life.

He is shocked when Smith retrieves the blue monkey, buried in the moor. Together, they confront Mr. Damopolon. Smith points out that the blue monkey is actually a worthless curio and that he concluded the killer carefully walked in Sir Jeffrey’s tracks before retracing his steps backwards to escape the scene of the crime, while carefully using the porcelain monkey to leave retreating footprints behind. Smith offers damning evidence that it was Damopolon who murdered his employer and concealed the blue monkey in the moor. The secretary confesses and reveals that he and Olive had been secretly married and that he had reason to hate her disapproving father, as well as a desperate need for Olive’s inheritance. Before Smith and Petrie can stop him, the Greek draws a pistol from his pocket, places it at his temple, and pulls the trigger. It is a dramatic ending and one that borrows from real life as the author spent several years with a secret marriage of his own, while he continued to live with and care for his own disapproving father.

After reviving the Fu Manchu series a dozen years later with Daughter of Fu Manchu, Rohmer opted to rework “The Blue Monkey” as “The Mark of the Monkey.” The story first appeared in Brittania & Eve in April 1931, before being printed in the US in Collier’s two months later. Canadian readers first found the story in Family Herald & Star Weekly the following year, just before it was collected in Rohmer’s anthology of short fiction, Tales of East and West, which was published in the UK by Cassell. A note to collectors: the UK edition of this title does not recycle material from The Haunting of Low Fennel as the identically-titled US edition from Doubleday published in 1933 did. “The Mark of the Monkey” likewise begins with Smith and Petrie on holiday in Dartmoor when Smith is troubled to find he recognizes their neighbor’s secretary, but not the man’s name. John Randolph Pine is employed by the celebrated botanist, Henry Marsburg, and appears to be Eurasian. Smith insists on paying a visit to Marsburg and his daughter, Isola, at their neighboring estate.

The following day, while exploring the Moors, they come across Isola Marsburg, who informs them that her dog is missing. Smith and Petrie later stumble across the dog’s corpse in a nearby cave. Petrie confirms the dog was poisoned. Smith recognizes the mysterious purple marks on the dog’s throat as the Hanuman Death, or the Mark of the Monkey, an inexplicable plague he encountered while stationed in Burma. While puzzling the mystery, Isola Marsburg bursts into the room, frantic over her father, before collapsing. Smith and Petrie rush to the moors to the site of an ancient Roman mine, where they discover Henry Marsburg has died a victim of the Hanuman Death, only this time Smith and Petrie see a peculiar fungus growing in the cave that is the entrance to the mine shaft. Returning to Marsburg’s estate, Smith confronts Pine, who Smith reveals is Dr. Gwalia, a man he knew in Burma who murdered his wife, but fled the country before Smith could prove any wrongdoing. Pine insists that Smith is mistaken until Isola rushes in and reveals that she and Pine (who she calls Jean) are married but were forced to keep their marriage a secret to placate her disapproving father.

Dr. Gwalia confesses he killed his father-in-law with the same poison fungus he used to kill his first wife. Faced with the consequences of his actions, he exposes himself to the poison fungus and dies horribly at Smith and Petrie’s feet in the shocking conclusion. The final of the three stories, “The Turkish Yataghan” first appeared in Collier’s in January 1932 and was collected in both the UK and US editions of Tales of East and West. The story sees Smith and Shan Greville (narrator of Daughter of Fu Manchu and the forthcoming The Mask of Fu Manchu) in Limehouse when a drunken sailor tries selling them a Turkish Yataghan. Smith has no use for the blade and sends the man on his way. Visiting a club, The Blue Lamp, where the proprietor Jo Chang’s English wife is the featured performer in yellowface, they bump into Inspector Yale of Scotland Yard (who had a brief role in Daughter of Fu Manchu). The Inspector has just come from the home of a curio dealer called Peter Anderman, who has just been found murdered with a Turkish Yataghan at his side.

The trio quickly leave for the dead man’s house, where it is established he was a hashish user and notorious womanizer, with pornographic photographs framed on the walls of his study. Scotland Yard picks up the drunken sailor on Smith’s description. The angry sailor tells how he met Anderman just after he approached Smith and Greville. He tells of his unpleasant transaction with the curio dealer and how the man gypped him, but he maintains he never entered his home and that the entire transaction occurred outside. Smith has the sailor released as his story matches that given by Anderman’s secretary, Michael. Surprisingly, Michael is only a red herring and the secretary is not actually guilty of murdering his unlikable employer, as in the first two stories. Greville notes Michael’s Jewish heritage to cue the reader that his ethnicity is suspect, but Rohmer has a different trail to pursue and has Smith surprise both Greville and Yale by returning to The Blue Lamp afterhours. There they confront Jo Chang, who eventually admits that his wife was cuckolding him with Peter Anderman, who was supplying her with hashish.

Humiliated by his adulterous wife, he killed Anderman in a crime of passion and was planning on murdering his wife as well. Faced with the consequences of his actions, Jo Chang produces a needle-thin blade from inside his coat and kills himself before the startled eyes of Smith, Greville, and Yale. It is interesting to note that all three stories written over the course of a dozen years end in the perpetrator committing suicide rather than being brought to justice. The first two stories involve a secret marriage between the dead man’s secretary and his daughter being the reason for the murder and the murder scene being a Roman mine in Dartmoor. The first and third story concern an exotic curio that turns out to be of no value and of no relation to the murder. A mysterious Burmese monkey adds exotic flavor to the mystery for the first two stories. Rohmer was experimenting with mixing up the Fu Manchu formula and trying to decide how best to continue with Nayland Smith outside the confines of a Yellow Peril framework. These three orphaned adventures have only been collected as part of the Fu Manchu canon once in a set of seven omnibus editions published in France and Belgium in the 1970s.

Munsey’s Black Mask imprint recently printed The Haunting of Low Fennel in the US for the first time and Black Dog Books included “The Blue Monkey” in The Green Spider, the initial volume in their Sax Rohmer Library. The US edition of Tales of East and West has been out of print since the limited edition Bookfinger hardcover reprint forty years ago. As scarce as “The Turkish Yataghan” may now be, “The Mark of the Monkey” ranks among Rohmer’s rarest stories ever published in book form, having been out of print for nearly eighty years. Special thanks are due to my good friend, Rick Lai, who helped provide me with a copy of the latter story in order to complete this article. William Patrick Maynard was authorized to continue Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu thrillers beginning with The Terror of Fu Manchu (2009; Black Coat Press). A sequel, The Destiny of Fu Manchu was published earlier this year by Black Coat Press. Next up is a collection of short stories featuring an Edwardian detective, The Occult Case Book of Shankar Hardwicke and a hardboiled detective novel, Lawhead.

To see additional articles by William, visit his blog at SetiSays.blogspot.com Vintage Pop Fictions: Sax Rohmer's The Dream Detective pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Sax Rohmer's The Dream Detective Psychic or occult detective stories enjoyed a considerable vogue towards the end of the 19th century and for the first quarter of the 20th. The best-known are William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki the ghost finder and Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence stories. There were also the Flaxman Low stories of Hesketh V. Prichard (1876-1922) and Kate O'Brien Prichard. And there was also Sax Rohmer’s The Dream Detective. Published in 1925, The Dream Detective recounts ten cases in the career of Moris Klaw. Klaw is pretty much what you’d expect an occult investigator to be - a rather shabby and oddly dressed old man, tall and stooped and with a bald head, and with a prodigious knowledge of the occult.

There is a fascinating difference though that sets these stories apart from the psychic detective stories of other writers. In most cases the psychic detective investigates supernatural happenings (or happenings assumed to be supernatural) using the methods of science (albeit very unconventional science of an occult nature). But Moris Klaw’s cases are essentially straightforward if unusual crimes without any overt supernatural elements, but he investigates them by methods that are most certainly occult. Moris Klaw has come up with several singular theories of crime. The first is that very powerful emotions, such as those experienced by both a murderer and his victim, are imprinted on their surroundings where they can be recovered. Klaw does this by sleeping at the crime scene. In his sleep he receives a kind of mental photograph of the crime (hence the use of the term dream detective as the title of this collection). Klaw believes that thoughts have an almost physical existence, an idea that finds its fullest expression in the best story in the collection, The Case of the Veil of Isis. His second theory is the Cycle of Crime. Certain objects, especially historical relics, are continually involved in a series of crimes often over the course of many centuries. To some extent this can be true of houses as well.

As Moris Klaw points out in The Case of the Haunting of Grange, a haunted house is not haunted by one ghost over the course of many generations but rather by a new ghost in each generation, but the manifestations will always follow the same pattern. It’s not so much that the house is haunted by a ghost as the house itself possesses some quality that produces ghostly manifestations. In some cases this may be as a result of an atrocious crime or the career of a notorious scoundrel who lived in the house at one time. Moris Klaw has an assistant - his beautiful and rather glamorous daughter Isis Klaw. She is the keeper of his occult library and her knowledge of such matters comes close to equalling that of her father. He often works with Inspector Grimsby of Scotland Yard. Grimsby had been a sceptic but after the affair in the Menzies Museum he is convinced that Moris Klaw is not merely genuine - he recognises that in any crime that has odd or unusual elements to it Klaw’s help is absolutely essential to him. Grimsby is young, talented and ambitious but most importantly he has a knack for working with other people.

Many of the cases involve archaeological artifacts and several are set in museums or involve collectors of artistic or archaeological objects. The Tragedies in the Greek Room are caused by the famous Athenean Harp, the most valuable item in the Menzies Museum. The Case of the Headless Mummies revolves around both mummies and the legendary Egyptian Book of the Lamps. The Case of the Potsherd of Anubis (one the best stories here) is about an ancient vase which is believed to have the power to summon great powers, an object sought by at least three different parties all with their own motives. There is also, in The Case of the Case of the Crusader’s Axe, a battle-axe with a bloody history. In The Case of the Blue Rajah the object is a fabulous diamond with a notorious history. In The Case of the Ivory Statue (another of the standout stories) it’s a modern work of art, but it is a statue of an ancient Egyptian dancer. Sax Rohmer is best remembered for his Fu Manchu novels but he wrote in various genres, always entertainingly. The Dream Detective is a superb combination of crime and the occult, thoroughly enjoyable and original and is highly recommended.

Posted by Amazon.com: The Golden Scorpion (9781587154942): Sax Rohmer: Books The Golden Scorpion Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Editorial Reviews About the Author Sax Rohmer (1883 1959) was a prolific English mystery writer who was best known for his thriller novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu-Manchu. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . Ignite your imagination with these editor's picks from Kindle books.

See more Product Details Publisher: Borgo Press (January 1, 2002) Language: English Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces ( View shipping rates and policies ) Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Rohmer By Amazon Customer on August 25, 2002 I have always enjoyed Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu books - I have them all - but I had never read his other books before. The old-fashioned style in The Golden Scorpion can be a bit offputting until you get used to it, and the racial stereotyping is certainly jarring to modern sensibilities (and would probably be offensive for some). But if you view it as a product of the time and accept that such views were typical then, it is a very exciting story. No one writes like this anymore -- exciting, with clear-cut good and evil, fast-paced, with characters who are larger than life. Good stuff! 5.0 out of 5 stars Classic "Yellow Peril" ByA customeron July 27, 1997 "...

a needle-like ray of blue light shot across the lawn from beyond the hedge and-- but for that nervous start-- must have struck fully upon the back of Stuart's skull. Instead, it shone past his head, which it missed only by inches, and he experienced a sensation as though some one had buffeted him upon the cheek furiously. He pitched out of his chair and on to the carpet. The first object which the ray touched was the telephone; and next, beyond it, a medical dictionary; beyond that again, the grate, in which a fire was laid... An intense crackling sound deafened him, and the air of the room seemed to have become hot as that of an oven. There came a series of dull reports-- an uncanny wailing... and the needle-ray vanished. A monstrous shadow, moon-cast,, which had lain across the carpet of the lawn-- the shadow of a cowled man-- vanished also. ...There was smoke in the room, a smell of burning and of fused metal. He glared at the table madly. The mouthpiece of the telephone had vanished!" A pretty impressive weapon and near assassination!

Especially since the scene was first published in 1920 in Sax Rohmer's thriller, The Golden Scorpion. Sadly, book store shelves today (even the shelves of rare and used book stores) are nearly devoid of works by Sax Rohmer (given name: Arthur S. Ward). The few titles by Rohmer which come and go in and out of print are those having to do with his most famous character-- the insidious Doctor Fu Manchu (portrayed variously in films by Boris Karloff in the 1930's and Christopher Lee in the 1960's) and his nemesis, the London detective, Nayland Smith, bearing a striking resemblance to Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes. Much is the pity that more of Rohmer's work isn't readily available to readers today. For the literary worlds of Sax Rohmer are filled with intrigue, fast-paced action and suspense, and, alas, a good deal of what would be termed political incorrectness today. For many of Rohmer's greatest villains, like Dr.

Fu Manchu, are Chinese masterminds, ready to claim possession of the world during a time when Europeans and Americans, alike, worried about the rising influence of China and the "Yellow Peril." In The Golden Scorpion Europe's top scientists are suddenly falling dead of no apparent cause and French detective Gaston Max, master of disguise, languages, and intellect (surely a close cousin to Mr. Holmes as well as Poe's A. Dupin) believes the deaths are actually murder-- murder which he traces to "The Scorpion" a Chinese genius whose identity has always remained concealed behind a cloud of fear. Dr. Keppel Stuart becomes a target of "The Scorpion" due to his knowledge of exotic poisons and falls under the charm of the beautiful Asian woman variously known as Mlle. Dorian, Zara el-Khala, and Miska, whose "smile was the taunting smile of the East, which is at once a caress and an invitation." But as Gaston Max closes in, we learn that Miska's is a dreadful life-- for she is an unwilling agent of "The Scorpion" who, Miska confesses, "is the most dangerous being in the known world.

He has invented horrible things-- poisons and instruments, which I cannot describe because I have never seen them; but I have seen... some of their effects." Nor has she seen "The Feast of a Thousand Ants," another one of The Scorpion's playful devices which "is performed with the aid of African driver ants, a pair of surgical scissors and a pot honey" which can strip the flesh off of a living man in sixty-nine minutes! And who is "The Scorpion ? "The new-comer wore a cowled garment of some dark blue material which enveloped him from head to feet. It possessed oval eye-holes, and through these apertures gleamed two eyes which looked scarcely like the eyes of a human being. They were of that brilliant yellow colour sometimes seen in the eyes of tigers, and their most marked and awful peculiarity was their unblinking regard. They seemed always to be open to their fullest extent, and Stuart realized with anger that it was impossible to sustain for long the piercing unmoved gaze... for he knew he was in the presence of `The Scorpion' The Golden Scorpion stands among Rohmer's finest suspense tales outside of the Fu Manchu series.

The story drives frantically to the awesome climax and will transport readers back in time to a simpler era where the greatest threat to the world is a mad Chinese mastermind whose weapons are death rays and poisons, whose eyes have the power to mesmerize (like Chandu the Magician-- a famous pulp-fiction character and later a movie serial which Rohmer gives a tip of the hat to in The Golden Scorpion), and who, like many a mortal, is flawed when it comes to beauty and love. Those were the days. By Elfbrick on June 23, 2011 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Other reviewers have done a good job of reviewing the story itself, so I just have a few comments on the Kindle transfer. It's pretty dreadful. I've read a goodly number of free Kindle books now and am used to the usual errors, but this book actually repeats about 10 pages in the middle. I've never seen that before. In addition to that, there are many more spelling/word errors than the average free Kindle book.

If you don't mind the errors and the 10 pages repeated then this is a good (free) read, but if you're distracted by these things I'd recommend buying a hardcopy of this book. By Fantasyman on February 21, 2013 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I'm only giving this one three stars. Overall, if I had never read any of the Fu Manchu stories, I might go a little higher, but, having read something of Fu Manchu, I recognize the story as being largely a reprise of some of those previous works. Not a bad story, but, the plot is definitely a retread. Not one of Sax Rohmer's better efforts in my opinion. There is just something missing from this tale that I can't nail down. And unfortunately, it is for that lack of that indefinable something, that I only rate this one as average. For free on Kindle, you can't quibble about the price. By wiredweird HALL OF FAME TOP 1000 REVIEWER on June 17, 2011 Strictly speaking, this isn't in Rohmer's Fu Manchu series.

The name of the insidious Chinese mastermind bent on world domination, together with his beautiful female agent, has changed. That's about it, though. The excitement, dens of iniquity, worldwide conspiracies and all the rest are about the same. The racial stereotypes haven't changed much either. As always, Rohmer delivers a good, trashy bit of noir amusement. And, I'm happy to say, the bizarre attitudes about people from different gene pools are no longer commonplace. In fact, such attitudes are about as distant from my world as whalebone corsets and Victorian mores. The story's racism, though odious in itself, lies safely behind layers of history. Like the manners and clothing of costume dramas, the attitudes depict Rohmer's time as it was, even if not as any sane person would want today to be. -- wiredweird BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online My Research (Login) Sax Rohmer's Egyptian intoxication Luckhurst, Roger (2015) Sax Rohmer's Egyptian intoxication. In: Baker, P. and Clayton, A. (eds.) Lord of Strange Deaths : The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer.

London, UK: Strange Attractor Press. ISBN 9781907222252. Full text not available from this repository. Official URL: Abstract Book synopsis: 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of one of the world's most notorious fictional villains, the fiendish Dr Fu Manchu, """"the Yellow Peril incarnate in one man"""": master criminal, evil scientist and lord of strange deaths. Fu Manchu's creator, Sax Rohmer (Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1883-1959) was the king of pulp exotica. This groundbreaking collection of essays and appreciations considers the work, contexts and enduring fascination of Rohmer, from fin-de-siecle racial anxieties to Egypt, anarchists, and the occult. Metadata Sax Rohmer Book List - FictionDB Thriller Mar-2016 This final volume in the Fu-Manchu collection brings together some unpublished manuscripts, and stories which have previously appeared only in magazine form, by the late Sax Rohmer. The long title novella and three others feature the dastardly Dr. Fu...

Mystery Sep-2014 Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883 - 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. He issued the first Fu Manchu novel, in 1913. It was a... Mystery Jul-2014 Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883 - 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. He issued the first Fu Manchu novel, in 1913. It was a... Mystery Apr-2014 Ten stories featuring perhaps the most fantastic sleuth of them all: Moris Klaw, the Dream Detective. Accompanied by his beautiful daughter Isis, Klaw's mysterious abilities lead him to clues and answers concerning occult occurrances far beyond the k... General Fiction Apr-2014 Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist.

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The Yellow Claw General Fiction Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym used by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward. Ward was a British novelist born in 1883. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu. The evil Fu Manchu would disguise himself in order ... Crime & Mystery Fiction Genre - Page #1 A Bid for Fortune Guy Boothby Richard Hatteras, on holiday in Sydney, rescues a lovely young woman in distress, the start of a series of events that sees him falling in love and becoming ever more entangled in the machinations of the shadowy Doctor Nikola, villain, gentleman, and occult adventurer, who will stop at nothing to steal his prize. Bo… Read More » After Dark Wilkie Collins A series of tales supposed to be told to a portrait-painter by his sitters; the framework tells us how he came to think of publishing the stories thus collected; the introductions describe the circumstances under which the tales were told. These portions have a delicate every-day interest. The tales are stories of a… Read More » Again Sanders Edgar Wallace The situation appears calm in the colonial area of the Sanders.

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He can cause ordinary men to see images… Read More » Fire-Tongue Sax Rohmer Fire-Tongue is the mystery thriller that English writer Sax Rohmer credited to his friend, Harry Houdini. Rohmer plotted the challenge like a trap set by his best-known creation, the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu. The prolific author set up the perfect crime with no idea how to solve it, and worked the case himself alo… Read More » Four Just Men Edgar Wallace When the Foreign Secretary, Sir Philip Ramon, receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter; ‘We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfil our promise. You will die at Eight in the Evening – The Four Just Men’, he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members smoke… Read More » Dope - Sax Rohmer - Google Books View all » About the author (2014) Sax Rohmer was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he adopted the name Sarsfield, the name of a famous Irish general admired by Rohmer's mother.

He married Rose Elizabeth Knox in 1909 and, at his wife's insistence, began using the name Sax Rohmer for his fiction, eventually employing the pseudonym as his actual name. Rohmer was basically a self-taught scholar. He started writing as a journalist; his beat was the Limehouse underworld in London. Rohmer had a difficult time breaking into the professional fiction markets, but once he did, he became a household name for exotic adventure both in England and in America. Although his writing brought Rohmer success and money, he was never much of a businessman, and most of his wealth was squandered because of his extravagance and through financial mismanagement. Rohmer eventually moved to New York City. One of Rohmer's great intellectual interests was the occult and supernatural, and these elements frequently appeared as motifs in his fiction. His most famous creation was the evil oriental mastermind, Dr. Fu Manchu, first presented in the novel The Mystery of Fu Manchu in 1913 (later retitled The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu for its American publication, also in 1913).

Most espionage or adventure fiction exploits the social paranoias of its time, and Rohmer himself effectively tapped the Westerner's fear of the stereotyped "yellow peril" threat---the negatively perceived belief that Orientals will conquer the world. The Fu Manchu adventures were patterned, in part, after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Rohmer's protagonists in these adventures, Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his companion Dr. Petrie, look very much like Doyle's Holmes and Watson, but, whereas Doyle centered his narratives on the heroes and specifically on the elaborate process of detection, Rohmer focused his attention on the villain and on slam-bang action. Fu Manchu was a master of both Western science and Eastern mysticism, and his efforts at world domination caused no end of problems for Smith and Petrie. In Fu Manchu, Rohmer had created the most famous villain in popular fiction (although Rohmer maintained that Fu Manchu was based on an actual Limehouse criminal). Despite Rohmer's use of outrageous racial stereotyping, many of his novels hold up well today and provide superior examples of how to create narrative pacing and suspense.

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See more Product Details Publisher: Amereon Ltd; First Edition edition (June 1, 1976) Language: English Shipping Weight: 12 ounces ( View shipping rates and policies ) Average Customer Review: By Michael Layne on October 9, 2013 Format: Mass Market Paperback|Verified Purchase No, Fu Manchu does not show up in this book, but there is an evil mastermind who the Chinese Doctor would probably respect (as he uses some of Fu's methods), with his own complex scheme for world conquest, and a unique Weapon of Mass Destruction. And there are some good guys to oppose him. This novel could probably be adapted into an action film. By wiredweird HALL OF FAME TOP 1000 REVIEWER on October 23, 2011 Sax Rohmer created the famous Fu Manchu series. His breathless purple prose about the Yellow Peril tapped into the fear, prejudices, and stereotypes of his era, so that very little else was really needed to create an exciting story. And, since each book, was one in a series, crisp endings didn't matter all that much. Each story was expected to pave the way for the next.

So, if you strip off the racial stereotypes and prejudices, there wasn't really much left to distinguish the story. That becomes apparent in this book. It recycles the evil super-scientist bent on world domination (destruction in this case), the sweet young thing dragged, against her will, into the plot, and dashing good guys who save the world with just moments to spare. You know, the usual. If shallow characters, unexplained situations, and abrupt endings suit your idea of a story, have a blast. This is pulp fiction at its pulpiest, with all the good and bad that implies. - wiredweird Fu Manchu | fictional character | Britannica.com fictional character Alternative Title: Dr. Fu Manchu Similar Topics Robin Hood Fu Manchu, in full Dr. Fu Manchu, fictional character, a Chinese criminal genius who was the hero-villain of novels and short stories by Sax Rohmer (pseudonym of Arthur Sarsfield Ward). The character also appeared in silent and sound films, radio, and comic strips. The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu personified the genre of the “yellow peril” mystery, which expressed Western fears of the expansion of Asian power and influence.

Fu Manchu made his first appearance in the short story “ The Zayat Kiss, ” in the Story-Teller (1912). For 45 years, story collections and novels appeared, including The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913; also published as The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu), The Devil Doctor (1916; also published as The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu), The Trail of Fu Manchu (1934), President Fu Manchu (1936), Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948), Emperor Fu Manchu (1959), and many more. Learn More in these related articles: 1 Reference found in Britannica Articles Assorted Reference Corrections? Updates? Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your feedback. MEDIA FOR: You have successfully emailed this. Error when sending the email. Try again later. Edit Mode Submit Tips For Editing We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind. Encyclopædia Britannica articles are written in a neutral objective tone for a general audience.

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X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu ( 1969 ) The Castle of Fu Manchu (original title) PG | An evil Chinese mastermind plots to freeze the Earth's oceans. Director: Jesús Franco (as Jess Franco) Writers: a list of 199 titles created 30 Jan 2011 a list of 2896 titles created 15 Nov 2014 a list of 201 titles created 10 Jan 2015 a list of 99 titles created 11 Mar 2015 a list of 35 titles created 2 months ago Title: Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) 2.7/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.

Director: Jesús Franco In his remote Asian hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, as the first step in his plan to become leader of ... See full summary » Director: Jeremy Summers Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the ... See full summary » Director: Don Sharp Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility of the fiendish Fu Manchu may not be dead after all, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A ... See full summary » Director: Don Sharp "Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the ... See full summary » Director: Jesús Franco Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world. Director: Jesús Franco A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies.

When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! Director: Jesús Franco Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of 17th century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs. Director: Jesús Franco New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ... See full summary » Director: Jesús Franco Somewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison. Director: Jesús Franco Comedy about the surreal holiday of two teenage Spanish girls, where they meet a bizarre assortment of villains and new friends. Director: Jesús Franco Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games. Director: Jesús Franco Edit Storyline The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device.

Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Dr. Nayland Smith. Written by crow_steve@hotmail.com He's Back!!! The World's Most Evil Man with a Fiendish Plan of Conquest Genres: Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia A sixth film was contracted but due to this movie's dismal box office performance and even worse critical reaction, it was swiftly canceled. See more » Goofs The first scenes where Fu-Manchu is directing the sinking of the liner were the final scenes of a previous Fu-Manchu movie: The brides of Fu Manchu, where he shots his lieutenant who was trying to stop Fu Manchu surpass the maximum of the machine. See more » Quotes Lin Tang : Father! Doctor Kessler and the girl, they have escaped! They have reached the tunnel! Fu Manchu : Excellent. And when the crystals are released into the tunnel - they will die. See more » Crazy Credits Maria Perschy's character is called Dr. Ingrid Koch but on the credits her character's name is given as Marie.

See more » Connections The Fifth and Final of the Series 27 February 2011 | by Michael_Elliott Castle of FuManchu, The (1968) * 1/2 (out of 4) The fifth and final film in Christopher Lee's FuManchu series is considered by many to be the worst but I personally found it so bad that I was able to have a little fun with it. The film has FuManchu (Lee) once again trying to take over the world and by now you might be asking when the guy is just going to give up and go home. Anyway, this time he plans on freezing all the oceans in the world so he kidnaps a doctor to perform an operation on the one man who knows how to do such a thing. THE CASTLE OF FUMANCHU isn't a good movie so you shouldn't go into the film expecting anything other that pure silliness. There's no question this is a bad movie but thankfully it's bad enough to be mildly entertaining but I'm sure most people will be smart enough to hit the eject button by the thirty-minute mark.

Once again Lee appears to have only enough energy to cash a paycheck as he's obviously not too thrilled about doing this picture. As in the previous film, Lee pretty much just sleepwalks through the film and offers up very little energy. The supporting cast includes Gunther Stoll playing the doctor, Jose Manuel Martin as an opium dealer and cult favorite Rosalba Neri playing an assassin. These supporting players are certainly one of the few good things in the film. The film has a bigger budget than most Franco pictures but that's not saying too much because we still get all sorts of cheapness including some stock footage from the Titanic picture A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, which certainly doesn't mix well with any of the new footage. The film does have some decent cinematography but there's just not enough here to make it worth viewing. Fans of Lee, Franco or FuManchu are bound to be disappointed with this film, which turned out to be the last in the series. 4 of 7 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes

Question: Sax Rohmer created which notorious, fictional criminal?
Answer: Dr. FU MANCHU