Status Updates From The Fu Manchu Omnibus 1

One pleasure of reading books from the early part of the 20th Century, especially those dealing with "foreign parts", it's that the writers pepper their work with obscure words of foreign origin that expand the vocabulary! I have today discovered the word "kahn", from the Persian kân, meaning an inn or hotel

So, the Devil Doctor is defeated and left for dead once more. Petrie and his beloved have arrived at Port Said having survived the evil intent of the Bishop of Damascus! What will await them when they attempt to solve the Si-Fan Mysteries?

The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu is finished. The sinister doctor has disappeared in the flames of a burning building. Dr Petrie is heading up the Nile to visit his beloved Karamaneh and all is right with the world. But what's this on the next page we have The Devil Doctor or The Return of Doctor Fu-Manchu...

The picture that he presented at that moment is one which persistently clings in my memory. In his long, yellow robe, his masklike, intellectual face bent forward amongst the riot of singular objects upon the table, his great, high brow gleaming in the light of the shaded lamp above him, and with the abnormal eyes, filmed and green, raised to us, he seemed a figure from the realms of delirium.

Great fun