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1. The Golden Scorpion
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2. Bat Wing
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3. The Yellow Claw
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4. Tales of Chinatown
 
5. Master of Villainy: A Biography

1. The Golden Scorpion
by Sax, 1883-1959 Rohmer
Kindle Edition: Pages (2006-06-17)
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Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Placing his bag upon the floor, he lingered, looking to left and right, when suddenly a big closed car painted dull yellow drew up beside the pavement. It was driven by a brown-faced chauffeur whose nationality I found difficulty in placing, for he wore large goggles. But before I could determine upon my plan of action, Le Balafré" crossed the pavement and entered the car--and the car glided smoothly away, going East. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Classic Rohmer
I have always enjoyed Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu books - I have them all - but I had never read his other books before. The old-fashioned style in The Golden Scorpion can be a bit offputting until you get used to it, and the racial stereotyping is certainly jarring to modern sensibilities (and would probably be offensive for some). But if you view it as a product of the time and accept that such views were typical then, it is a very exciting story. No one writes like this anymore -- exciting, with clear-cut good and evil, fast-paced, with characters who are larger than life. Good stuff!

5-0 out of 5 stars Classic "Yellow Peril"
"... a needle-like ray of blue light shot across the lawn from beyond the hedge and-- but for that nervous start-- must have struck fully upon the back of Stuart's skull. Instead, it shone past his head, which it missed only by inches, and he experienced a sensation as though some one had buffeted him upon the cheek furiously. He pitched out of his chair and on to the carpet. The first object which the ray touched was the telephone; and next, beyond it, a medical dictionary; beyond that again, the grate, in which a fire was laid... An intense crackling sound deafened him, and the air of the room seemed to have become hot as that of an oven. There came a series of dull reports-- an uncanny wailing... and the needle-ray vanished. A monstrous shadow, moon-cast,, which had lain across the carpet of the lawn-- the shadow of a cowled man-- vanished also. ...There was smoke in the room, a smell of burning and of fused metal. He glared at the table madly. The mouthpiece of the telephone had vanished!" A pretty impressive weapon and near assassination! Especially since the scene was first published in 1920 in Sax Rohmer's thriller, The Golden Scorpion. Sadly, book store shelves today (even the shelves of rare and used book stores) are nearly devoid of works by Sax Rohmer (given name: Arthur S. Ward). The few titles by Rohmer which come and go in and out of print are those having to do with his most famous character-- the insidious Doctor Fu Manchu (portrayed variously in films by Boris Karloff in the 1930's and Christopher Lee in the 1960's) and his nemesis, the London detective, Nayland Smith, bearing a striking resemblance to Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes. Much is the pity that more of Rohmer's work isn't readily available to readers today. For the literary worlds of Sax Rohmer are filled with intrigue, fast-paced action and suspense, and, alas, a good deal of what would be termed political incorrectness today. For many of Rohmer's greatest villains, like Dr. Fu Manchu, are Chinese masterminds, ready to claim possession of the world during a time when Europeans and Americans, alike, worried about the rising influence of China and the "Yellow Peril." In The Golden Scorpion Europe's top scientists are suddenly falling dead of no apparent cause and French detective Gaston Max, master of disguise, languages, and intellect (surely a close cousin to Mr. Holmes as well as Poe's A. Dupin) believes the deaths are actually murder-- murder which he traces to "The Scorpion" a Chinese genius whose identity has always remained concealed behind a cloud of fear. Dr. Keppel Stuart becomes a target of"The Scorpion" due to his knowledge of exotic poisons and falls under the charm of the beautiful Asian woman variously known as Mlle. Dorian, Zara el-Khala, and Miska, whose "smile was the taunting smile of the East, which is at once a caress and an invitation." But as Gaston Max closes in, we learn that Miska's is a dreadful life-- for she is an unwilling agent of "The Scorpion" who, Miska confesses, "is the most dangerous being in the known world. He has invented horrible things-- poisons and instruments, which I cannot describe because I have never seen them; but I have seen... some of their effects." Nor has she seen "The Feast of a Thousand Ants," another one of The Scorpion's playful devices which "is performed with the aid of African driver ants, a pair of surgical scissors and a pot honey" which can strip the flesh off of a living man in sixty-nine minutes! And who is "The Scorpion ? "The new-comer wore a cowled garment of some dark blue material which enveloped him from head to feet. It possessed oval eye-holes, and through these apertures gleamed two eyes which looked scarcely like the eyes of a human being. They were of that brilliant yellow colour sometimes seen in the eyes of tigers, and their most marked and awful peculiarity was their unblinking regard. They seemed always to be open to their fullest extent, and Stuart realized with anger that it was impossible to sustain for long the piercing unmoved gaze... for he knew he was in the presence of `The Scorpion' The Golden Scorpion stands among Rohmer's finest suspense tales outside of the Fu Manchu series. The story drives frantically to the awesome climax and will transport readers back in time to a simpler era where the greatest threat to the world is a mad Chinese mastermind whose weapons are death rays and poisons, whose eyes have the power to mesmerize (like Chandu the Magician-- a famous pulp-fiction character and later a movie serial which Rohmer gives a tip of the hat to in The Golden Scorpion), and who, like many a mortal, is flawed when it comes to beauty and love. Those were the days. ... Read more


2. Bat Wing
by Sax, 1883-1959 Rohmer
Kindle Edition: Pages (2004-08-01)
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Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Rohmer's occult detective Paul Harley first case, involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder! ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Early 20th century sensation novel
There's a lot more to Sax Rohmer than his Fu Manchu novels. Some years back, I bought a cache of Rohmer's books published by A.L. Burt in the teens and twenties, some from the Fu Manchu series, but others with delightfully lurid titles such as The Golden Scorpion, The Green Eyes of Bast, and The Dream Detective, the latter featuring the wondrous Moris Klaw, a blind detective with extra-sensory powers.

From time to time I dip into this reservoir for a completely escapist read. These novels, despite being dated and notoriously full of racial stereotypes, fairly pop off the page. Rohmer knew how to spin a yarn, and Bat Wing is no exception. The tale involves a haughty Spanish colonel and a secret too dark, too deep, to divulge. Rohmer's detective hero, Paul Harvey, is in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and of course he has a trusted friend who doubles as the narrator much as Dr. Watson does. Together they unravel the sinister mystery, encountering voodoo rites, vampire bats, an Edgar Allen Poe-esque writer, and other fantastic developments en route to the sensational ending. ... Read more


3. The Yellow Claw
by Sax, 1883-1959 Rohmer
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The elusive Oriental villain known as "Mr. King"masterminds an insidious plot to hold London'swealthy at his mercy. His henchmen have alreadykilled one socialite, and more are threatened. Hot on the trail are two of Sax Rohmer's greatestdetectives, Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar, asthey undertake a case that threatens to destroy the cream of British society! ... Read more


4. Tales of Chinatown
by Sax, 1883-1959 Rohmer
Kindle Edition: Pages (2004-05-01)
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CHINATOWN . . . A place of mystery and intrigue, where Tong wars rage and sinister Oriental criminals plot world domination! Sax Rohmer, creator of legendary super-villain Fu Manchu, takes the reader on nine trips into the seedy underbelly of Chinatown with this fascinating collection of stories: "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." ... Read more


5. Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer
by Cay Van Ash, Elizabeth Sax Rohmer
 Textbook Binding: Pages (1972-06)
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Isbn: 0879720328
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars Reads like fiction
Master of Villainy was an entertaining biography of Sax Rohmer, the serial author whose most famous creation is the fictional crime lord Fu Manchu.Van Ash began his writing career under the tutilage of Sax Rohmer, who coached him in tweaking his stories and submitting them.This puts Van Ash in a unique perspective to write a biograhy of Rohmer.(Rohmer's widow Elizabeth collaborated on the project, which always helps.)

This background contributes to the biography very nicely.Van Ash, like Rohmer, was a serial author, so the facts presented here are described and paced for maximum entertainment value.Instead of beginning with a description of Sax being born and a sketch of his childhood Van Ash starts by describing a night on which Sax went missing in London's Chinatown and Elizabeth went to look for him.As Van Ash says he uses the character Fu Manchu to introduce the author rather than vice versa.The conventional biographical facts presented here string together anecdotes regarding Sax's life that highlight mysterious events and eccentricities in Sax and his aquaintances.This makes for a very entertaining read.

Van Ash's background as Sax's friend also gives the biography certain weaknesses.Often the anecdotes that Van Ash relates are entertaining and pertinent.However trivial and dull anecdotes are mixed in.For example, Van Ash relates the story of how the family cat freaked out and stared at something behind Rohmer one evening while he was writing.Later Rohmer realized that he had been writing about an Egyptian goddess with an affinity for cats.Had the cat seen it???... duh duh duh dunnnnnn.Van Ash has good narrative style but he spends more than a page describing this.Another flaw is that the entire biography is incredibly positive.Descriptions of the twenty year old Sax loosing every steady job he gets are described cheerfully.Affairs he has on his wife are treated positively too.Van Ash is adament that Sax started the affairs without really meaning it, and then kept them going because it would be rude to disappoint the ladies.Scandals are entertaining and an unauthorized biography would definitely be more fun in this area.

(Right now the lowest priced used copy at Amazon is about 65$ and 4 of the 5 used copies for sale are former library copies, so in the whole scale of supply and demand maybe someone should reprint this.Just wanted to throw that in.The vinyl covered edition also has a cool picture stamped in the vinyl.)

All in all this was a pretty good read.I recommend this book to anyone remotely interested in the subject matter.At the very least you will be entertained. ... Read more


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