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Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was the prolific English novelist. He is virtually all remembered for his series of novels featuring the master malefactor Dr. Fu Manchu.

Innate within Birmingham he had the totally working class education and early career prior to beginning to write. His number one promulgated operate was within 1903, a short story A Mysterious Mummy for Pearson's Weekly. He mass produced his early dwelling writing comedy sketches for performing artist & short stories & serials for magazines. Within 1909 he married Rose Knox. He published his number 1 novel around 1910, Pause! & a 1st Fu Manchu story, A Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu was serialized assibilate 1912-13. It was an quick profits by using its pacy & racist story of Nayl& Smith and Dr. Petrie facing a worldwide conspiracy of the 'Yellow Peril'. A Fu Manchu stories, together sustaining victims featuring Gaston Max or even Morris Klaw, processed Rohmer one of a virtually all successful & easily-paid writers inside of the Twenties & Thirties. However Rohmer was super unfortunate at treating his wealth. When World War II the Rohmers moved to New York.

The total of films were mass produced featuring Dr. Fu Manchu. A Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), featuring Boris Karloff, was the right of victims produced in the Thirties, in the main because of the toppingly slinky & sadistic performance by Myrna Loy as Fa Lo See, Fu Manchu's evil girl. the title was revived inside a super variable series starring Christopher Lee in the 1960s by owning A Face of Fu Manchu (1965), A Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), A Retribution of Fu Manchu (1967), & A Blood of Fu Manchu (1968). Chemicals film legend Harry Alan Towers produced two films according to a Sumuru character around the Sixties, & an updated space fantasy version in 2002.

Selected Bibliography
Pause!, 1910 A Sins of Severac Bablon, 1912 A Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, 1913 A Yellowness Claw, 1915 A Devil Doctor, 1916 A Si-Fan Mysteries, 1917 Tales of Secret Egypt, 1918 Dope, 1919 A Golden Scorpion, 1919 A Dream Detective, 1920 Tales of Chinatown, 1922 Yellow Shadows, 1925 A Book of Fu Manchu, 1929 A Girl of Fu Manchu, 1931 ''Fu Manchu's Bride, 1933 A Drums of Fu Manchu, 1939 A Shadow of Fu Manchu, 1948 A Sins of Sumuru, 1950 A Slaves of Sumuru, 1952 Virgaround in Fire, 1953 S& and Satin, 1955 Sinister Madonna, 1956 Re-enter Fu Manchu'', 1957

Blackmask Online: Fire-Tongue
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Blackmask Online: Dope
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Blackmask Online: The Return of Doctor Fu Manchu
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Blackmask Online: The Insidious Doctor Fu Manchu
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Sax Rohmer
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Page By Page Books: The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
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Page By Page Books: Fire-Tongue
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Page By Page Books: The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
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Page By Page Books: The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
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Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer
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