Genius of fictional wickedness! Sax Rohmer, an English novelist best known for his exotic and carefully researched mysteries, was born Arthur Henry Ward on February 15, 1883 in Birmingham.
Though he later changed his middle name to Sarsfield, Ward achieved his literary fame as Sax Rohmer with the publication in 1913 of The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, the first of 13 books in the Fu Manchu series. Sent by a magazine editor into the mysterious and malevolent Chinatown of London to find and interview the community's elusive and wondrous leader, Sax Rohmer, then in his late 20's, emerged as a man possessed and Dr. Fu Manchu was born.
Here in one volume are two of the most popular books in the Fu Manchu series:
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu, the second in the series but the first to be made into a major motion picture, and The Hand of Fu Manchu. Meet the evil Fu Manchu and walk the no-man's land that was London's Chinatown. Join Fu Man-chu's arch protagonist Nayland Smith as he matches wits with sin.