The 1950s the era of the Cold War. The USSR is poised to begin the space race by launching the Sputnik satellite, Mao Zedong rules Communist China, and the greatest global fear is of the atomic bomb.
Missing for nearly a decade, Fu-Manchu re-emerges in an attempt to wrest control of China from the accursed Communists. Nayland Smith pursues his enemy from London to Cairo to New York, determined to end his reign of terror. But there s something amiss with Smith something his allies need to uncover before it s too late."

The elusive villain, Mr. King, masterminds an insidious plot to hold London's wealthy at his mercy. His henchmen have killed one socialite and more are threatened. It's up to Gaston Max, a Parisian investigator and master of disguise, and Inspector Dunbar, to stop this threat to the highest of British society.

Fu Manchu was the most brilliant man alive; his very existence a scientific miracle. Yet evil was his nature and evil was the only end he served. Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie, the sworn enemies of Fu Manchu, had little knowledge of the dangers that awaited them. For the evil Doctor had one weapon in his fiendish arsenal from which there was no escape: the love of a beautiful woman.

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu is the first novel in the Dr. Fu-Manchu in which we meet Fu-Manchu, a master poisoner and chemist, a cunning member of the Yellow Peril, "the greatest genius which the powers of evil have put on the earth for centuries," Denis Nayland and Dr. Petrie, who combat the evil doctor.

When Dr. Petrie saw a bullet enter the skull of the fiendish mastermind Fu-Manchu, he assumed England had nothing more to fear from the evil genius. But Nayland Smith knows that whatever became of the devil doctor, the sinister organization he served will go on trying to conquer the world. From beyond the grave, Fu-Manchu reaches out to destroy the world. Sir Gregory Hale, attache to the British Embassy in Peking, has returned from a six-month expedition to the Gobi Desert and has sequestered himself in a London hotel refusing to see anyone but Smith. Ten minutes before the Burmese...

Four brilliant men have died mysteriously -- and the only clue is the carved tail of a golden scorpion, left beside their bodies. The man behind the horror calls himself "The Scorpion," and he clearly is a man of superior cunning. "Scorpion " Years before the whispered word had thrilled and alarmed Dr. Stuart. He had watched the Scorpion pass--a terrifying figure, in his monkish cowl and green veil, through which baleful eyes glittered. Now the scorpion had come again, in the form of a golden fragment, innocent enough in appearance, but in fact the symbol of a malevolent and desperate. It is...

In Tales of Chinatown Sax Rohmer uses first-hand experience in telling tales of criminal plots world domination, Tong wars and intrigue devised from inside the mysterious places of the largest city in England. This fascinating collection of stories includes: The Daughter of Huang Chow Kerry's Kid The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho The House of Golden Joss The White Hat Tcheriapin The Dance of the Veils The Hand of the Mandarin Quong The Key of the Temple of Heaven

Set in the Limehouse area of London, Dope is a story of Chinatown and the drug traffic and concerns itself with cannabis use. It is based on the story of Billie Carleton, a young English actress whose scandalous lifestyle ended with her death from a drug overdose. It is Rohmer's most popular novel, and generally voted a better story than any of the Fu-Manchu books, has taxed the vocabularies of all the reviewers in the country to find the right word to describe its thrilling appeal.

Robert Cairn is suspicions of Antony Ferrara, the adopted son of an old friend, of infernal magic and supernatural influence. The strange deeds of Antony illustrate certain phases of Sorcery as it was formerly practiced in Ancient Egypt and Europe during the Middle Ages. The strange murder of Sir Michael Ferrara is followed by a horrifying series of events and do not cease until Dr. Bruce Cairn destroys the source of Ferrara's control, the famed Book of Thoth. Now Ferrara is no longer able to control the elemental he has summoned and is found as a burned corpse.

Bat Wing is the first book of the Paul Harley detective series preceding Fire Tongue. It features Haitian voodoo, vampirism, and murder in central London showing the lengths people will go through for vengeance. "It seems to be pretty certain" he said, "that this thing is the wing of a Desmodus or Vampire Bat. Now, according to our authority"--he touched a work which lay open on the other arm of his chair--"these are natives of tropical America, therefore the presence of a living vampire bat in Surrey is not to be anticipated. I am personally satisfied, however, that this unpleasant fragment...