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The Si-Fan Mysteries. Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, The Devil Doctor.
London: Methuen and Co, 1934. [Crime Fiction] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.vi; 210. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to spine, with black ruling to front board, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 1'- to spine. Spotted internally and to textblock edges, previous ownership stamps to front and rear free endpapers, light sunning to spine, some faint spotting to reverse of jacket with toning to rear panel and general edgewear. A very good copy. Originally published in 1917, this copy of 'The Si-Fan Mysteries' is the fourteenth edition. This novel has been published in the U.S. under the name The Hand of Fu-Manchu, and is the third book in the Fu-Manchu series. Sax Rohmer, pen-name of Anglo-Irish author A.H. Ward, was a thriller writer and creator of the master criminal Fu-Manchu. This mastermind is inspired by real-life events experienced by Rohmer whilst working as a reporter in London's Chinatown - an area notorious for its drug smuggling, opium dens and a powerful criminal underworld. Rohmer's fifteen Fu-Manchu novels appeared between 1913 and 1959, and were all international best-sellers. Item #69252
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