Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, was a
prolific English novelist. He is most remembered for his series of
novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. His first
published work was in 1903, the short story "The Mysterious Mummy"
for "Pearson's Weekly." He published his first novel -- "Pause!" --
anonymously in 1910 and the first Fu Manchu story, "The Mystery of
Dr. Fu Manchu," was serialized over 1912-13. The Fu Manchu stories,
together with those featuring Gaston Max or Morris Klaw, made
Rohmer one of the most successful and well-paid writers in of the
1920s and 1930s.
"Tales of Chinatown" is a collection of ten stories by Rohmer.
Rohmer's stories take place in the Limehouse, a section of London
containing Chinatown. Rohmer's Chinatown is full of the mystery and
menace of the East. "The superficial inquirer comes away convinced
that the romance of the Asiatic district has no existence outside
the imaginations of writers of fiction. Yet here lies a secret
quarter, as secret and as strange, in its smaller way, as its
parent in China which is called the Purple Forbidden City." In the
Limehouse you'll find crime, drugs, and Chief Inspector Red Kerry,
struggling to keep a lid on this particular pot.
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