Sax Rohmer's the Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

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Summary: A RIPPER OF A YARN
Review: It's amazing how much action Sax Rohmer crams into this short, 192-page book. In it, Commissioner Nayland Smith and his cohort, Dr. Petrie, travel around London trying to rescue various chaps from murder, kidnapping, memory loss and assorted attacks perpetrated by the evil Chinese mastermind, Dr. Fu Manchu. The pace of the book is quite breathless, and before all is said and done, we have dealt with poisonous centipedes, opium dens, trapdoors, memory drugs, mummies, poison gas, thugees and dacoits, ship raids, hashish, zombies, poison mushrooms, swamp adder drugs and on and on. Like I said, Rohmer throws a lot into this one, all for the pleasure of the adventure-loving reader. Who cares if it's not PC? This is a ripper of a yarn, as they used to say, and a nice intro to the other 13 books in the Fu Manchu series.

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Summary: nonstop adventure following mysterious fu manchu
Review: Two Brittish chaps try to stop evil before it happens. They explore many unknown areas of london circa 1910. Visit an opium den, are drugged with cannabis indica and almost killed by deathly fungi spores. Fu Manchu has many disguises it's a great adventure story that explores underground hideouts!