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The Fu Manchu Omnibus: Volume 1 (Fu Manchu Omnibus)

Sax Rohmer

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Do not overlook these classics 4 out of 5 stars.
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I wish someone had told me earlier how good these books are. I picked up a used paperback of "The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu" and, even before I had reached page 50, I knew that I had to have more. I therefore rushed out to find these omnibus editions. Sax Rohmer wrote the Fu Manchu stories between 1912 and the late 1950s. From a chronological standpoint, then, but also thematically, Rohmer serves as a literary bridge between Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and Ian Fleming's James Bond.
Put the political considerations aside, and enjoy these tales as a reflection of the times. They are worthy of a wider, modern audience.

Super Reader 4 out of 5 stars.
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This contains the first three Fu-Manchu books.

The titles they give them are:

The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu
The Devil Doctor
The Si-Fan Mysteries

The breathless but brave and unrelenting goofball Nayland Smith and his stoic offsider and chronicler Petrie pursue the genius superman, the ultimate embodiment of the Yellow Peril, Dr Fu-Manchu.

Helped along the way by his beautiful but unwilling servant Kâramanèh is a game of capture and escape and disguise around London.

You have to give the good doctor credit for trying to kill 'em with poison gas stashed in a mummy's tomb.

The guy can't be all bad. He has a monkey.

Very entertaining.


4 out of 5


Fu-Manchu is back, and he has added to his collection of marauding monkey-like miscreants, and obtained a baboon killer.

Not to mention a cane that hides an Australian death adder.

Kâramanèh is still running around prominently, and very enigmatically. If she is trying to be sneaky, she definitely needs to lay off the perfume, according to Petrie's nose, anyway.

Hound of the Baskervilles scenarios with writers of Chinese descent, haunted houses and more.

Although Nayland Smith shows a few more signs of cleverness here, he still falls for a trap, and is about to be a rather nasty form of rat dinner.

Cue Egyptian babe, resplendent in harem gear and packing heat.

At the end, they could have even used a big old great dane, as a mummy-man is running around the ship they are travelling on to finish with.


3.5 out of 5

Not as good as the first two Fu-Manchu books, perhaps partly due to a fair lack of Fu-Manchu.

He does have some excuse though, being shot in the head at the end of the last book, and hence assumed dead by our ertswhile heroes.

It seems he is not, though, just in a bad way, and as such, abducts a top surgeon, and Petrie to assist. Or, at least his crew does, he is having problems just sitting up and talking with a bullet in his head.

They set their sights on the Si-Fan organisation, the overlords of the good Doctor, and perhaps a mystery woman in charge.

Fu-Manchu is in a bit of trouble with them himself, it seems.


3 out of 5

Editorial Review:

Since 1913, Sax Rohmer's tales of the sinister Dr. Fu-Manchu have delighted readers and moviegoers alike. For nearly a quarter of a century, they have been out of print, but Allison & Busby is reissuing them all in omnibus editions.

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu: Being a Somewhat Detailed Account of the Amazing Adventures of Nayland Smith in His Trailing of the Sinister Chinaman (New Millennium Library)

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Well written time capsule of early 20th century views of east/west relationships 4 out of 5 stars.
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Dr. Petrie is visited by long-time friend Nayland Smith and hurled into adventure. Smith, recently returned from British Burma, is on the trail of mysterious and evil Chinese scientist/political leader Dr. Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu and his fellows will stop at nothing to prevent Europe's leading students of the orient from revealing his secrets, and the plot to overturn the game of Empire as it was played in the early 20th Century to put China at the top of the world.

Fu Manchu has limited resources--a few practicers of Thuggee and Dacoits, but his scientific skills make up for this lack. He has access to rare poisons, secret gasses, trained monkies, and control of a beautiful woman willing to lead men to their doom. This woman, however, turns out to be a key to Smith's investigation when she falls for Petrie, saving him--and Smith--from certain death at the hands of Fu Manchu.

The opening novel in the long-running Fu Manchu series (Rohmer wrote approximately 14) is well constructed and fast-moving with Smith and Petrie always a step behind the brilliant Fu Manchu, yet willing to continue with plucky British spirit. Author Sax Rohmer shows a grudging respect for the evil Fu Manchu, but reflects the fears of his time--that the 'yellow peril' is fearsome indeed, and that a clash of civilization between the west and the inscrutible east is under weigh. That Fu Manchu's nation was largely occupied by western armies, forced to admit the Opium that poisoned some of China's finest minds, and that much of the rest of the east was a part of the British Empire added only the slightest tinge of sympathy for the evil Fu Manchu.

At a time when China is set to become the world's leading economy, fears of the 'yellow peril' are increasingly common and I felt it worthwhile to give THE INSIDIOUS DR. FU MANCHU another look. I thought Rohmer's writing held up well and that this story, unlike some of his later works which rely much too extensively on coincidence and luck. All in all, FU MANCHU makes for interesting reading an serves as a bit of a time machine into the mind of the British man-in-the-streets who saw the British Empire at its greatest extent, yet felt ever-threatened by the mysterious east.

Editorial Review:

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu is the first title in the famous series of "Yellow Peril" novels published by English writer Sax Rohmer, aka Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959), between 1913 and 1959. The novel, like its many sequels, pits the "evil genius" of the Far East against the British Duo, Denis Nayland Smith and his sidekick Dr. Petrie.

The Sins of Sumuru

Sax Rohmer

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WHO WAS SUMURU? It was said that she was an ice-cold, fascinating genius whose hypnotic powers impelled all men to do her bidding. It was said she was a fanatic who ruled her followers with oriental despots. It was said . . . But what was the truth? Nobody really knew although two men knew part of it -- sir Miles Tristram, just returned from Cairo, and Dr. Steel Maitland of the Secret Service. But Tristram died by the hand of a beautiful woman and his secret died with him. That left Maitland alone to follow the trail through Sumuru's shadowy underworld and it almost proved to be a task more than he could handle. In Sins of Sumuru, Sax Rohmer, creator of the famous Fu Manchu novels, has written another masterly story of fear and excitement.

The Hand of Fu-Manchu: Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Evil Doctor (New Millennium Library)

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A classic 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a classic must -read type book. Well written in that style only Sax Rohmer can do - and his story is one of his best. Read it, love it!!!!

good story, poor spelling 4 out of 5 stars.
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I will not address here the patent racism inherent to the plot and characters in the Fu-Manchu stories. For this discussion, see the reviews of the first volume, The Insidious Dr Fu-Manchu. I speak only to the quality of this 2001 New Millennium Library edition of the third volume, The Hand of Fu-Manchu.

The publisher has obviously relied upon computer spell-checking, not human proof-reading. I cannot count the number of instances where the letter R is replaced by the letter N, producing legitimate but inappropriate words. For example: "he looked left and Night", "we raced down the marble staiNs", "she lifted the veil from heN face", "he produced a paiN of handcuffs".

Also, the two cryptograms featured in the plot are not accurately reproduced, as compared with the 1962 Pyramid edition. Specifically, all of the letters are in normal script, when several should be in italics.

Admittedly, these points are merely annoyances. If you enjoyed the melodramatic first two volumes, this third is an excellent sequel.

Editorial Review:

The Hand of Fu-Manchu, the third in the series of the Yellow Peril

stories by English writer Sax Rohmer, aka Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959), begins with the villain already dead. The mystery unfolds around this puzzling fact. With settings that include Egypt, and the ever present enigma of the East, this novel delivers the best of Rohmer.