The review from afar – No. 9Re-revised forward to these overseas reviews:As I emulate a yo-yo, I continue to rely on an old-style Kindle 3G for any non-technical reading. I tip my hat to the fine folks at Project Gutenberg: virtually every title I have or will be reading in the near future come...
The review from afar – No. 10Re-revised forward to these overseas reviews:As I emulate a yo-yo, I continue to rely on an old-style Kindle 3G for any non-technical reading. I tip my hat to the fine folks at Project Gutenberg: virtually every title I have or will be reading in the near future com...
Sax Rohmer in his book, “The Drums of Fu-Manchu” Book Nine in the Dr. Fu-Manchu series published by Titan Books brings us new adventures of Sir Denis Nayland Smith, Dr. Petrie and, of course, the evil Dr. Fu-Manchu.From the Back Cover: “Imagine a person, tall, lean, and feline, high-shouldered, ...
The review from afar – No. 11Re-revised forward to these overseas reviews:As I emulate a yo-yo, I continue to rely on an old-style Kindle 3G for any non-technical reading. I tip my hat to the fine folks at Project Gutenberg: virtually every title I have or will be reading in the near future com...
This book, #5 of 14 in the Fu Manchu series, is a direct continuation of the previous entry, "The Daughter of Fu Manchu." Thus, a reading of that earlier story is fairly essential when going into this one. Shan Greville again narrates, and all our old friends are back: Nayland Smith, Dr. Petrie, ...
Egypt and then London, the early 1900's — the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the mysteries of Egypt — a time of shadows, secret societies, discoveries of hidden knowledge, and even a dead man who lives again. Into this setting comes a classic femme fatale, an oriental beauty with a sirenesq...
Here is the twelfth of the perilous adventures of Nayland Smith—another absorbing thriller that pits the top British agent against the fiendish devices of the keenest criminal genius in history. For Fu Manchu, long thought dead, is on the scene again—and the great cities of London, Cairo and New ...
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 ken of ordinary minds.
Paul Harvey PI and British Empire political consultant, chats in his office with pal Knox. Colonel Juan Menendez shows them a bat wing someone left for him, and claims someone, seen only as a shadow, watches him. Harvey is plunged into a world of voodoo, vampires and murder, from the creator of s...
247 TENTH EPISODE Case of the Veil of Isis 280 THE DREAM DETECTIVE THE DREAM DETECTIVE FIRST EPISODE CASE OF THE TRAGEDIES IN THE GREEK ROOM WHEN did Moris Klaw first appear in London ? It is a question which I am asked sometimes and to which I reply, "To the best of my knowledge, shortly before ...
And having found it, Tony had to go on for another mile or more before finding a suitable mooring where they might safely tie up. Dawn was very near by the time they made fast. After a scant breakfast, he made Yueh Hua promise not to leave the boat until he returned. Reluctantly, she did so, and ...
Both hands had been amputated. A spasm of anger, revulsion, nausea swept over me. I half withdrew the automatic from my pocket; then sanity conquered: I sat still and watched. Lowering my head inch by inch I presently discerned the pock-marked features of the stitcher. I had seen that hideous mas...
Fu-Manchu Chapter 24 From the rescue of Lord Southery my story bears me mercilessly on to other things. I may not tarry, as more leisurely penmen, to round my incidents; they were not of my choosing. I may not pause to make you better acquainted with the figure of my drama; its scheme is none o...
I was placed in a chair around which were grouped powerful lights for examination purposes. Companion Yamamata, who was scrutinizing some notes, immediately stood up and introduced himself, peremptorily dismissing the Chinamen. He was young and good-looking in the intellectual Japanese manner; wo...
In the preparation of The Worship of Apis at Memphis he was good enough to collaborate with me; and although this little work was designed solely for the use of students, it nevertheless had a fairly large sale, undoubtedly owing to its containing accounts of many unique investigations conducted ...
He was just stripping his jacket off when he saw her at the door of her room. “Hullo!” he called. “Why the wild enthusiasm for toil?” She was immaculate as always, but he thought she looked pale. She did not wear her glasses. “I couldn’t sleep, Dr. Craig. When daylight broke at last I was glad to...
He was dressed for the meeting, destined to take its place in American history. Above the table, in a niche and dominating the room, was a reproduction of the celebrated statue of Bussy d’Ambois. The table itself was an antique piece of great value, once the property of Cardinal Mazarin. “Listen,...