Dope
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1919.
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Hardcover. First American edition. Bookplate on front pastedown, corners a little bumped and rubbed, tiny stain on foredge, small ink line on front fly, and hinges repaired, very good in a very good or better dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears, but with the white spine bright and unsoiled. Several small flaws, but a very nice copy of this bestselling novel about the unexplained murder of a prominent baronet set in London, but employing the same mysterious Asian milieu that Rohmner used to great success with his Fu Manchu novels.
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Sax Rohmer
birth name: Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward
born: 2/15/1883
died: 6/1/1959
Biography
Internationally popular British writer who created the sinister Chinese criminal genius Fu Manchu. Rohmer was interested from childhood in ancient Egypty, the Middle East, and the occult. After working briefly in the financial district of London and as a journalist there, his growing interest in the Far East led him into fiction writing. He published Dr. Fu Manchu, the first of the series, in 1913. The inscrutable and aristocratic Fu immediately caught the public's fancy, and Rohmer wrote several more novels over the next 45 years, gradually transforming him from an entirely self-serving villain into a dedicated anti-communist. The character also appeared in motion pictures, radio, and television. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore