FM Series by Sax Rohmer
FM #1
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu f-1
Sax Rohmer
Follow the exciting adventures of Commissioner Nayland Smith as he pursues Dr. Fu Manchu across the opium dens of Thames-side London and various country estates.
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FM #2
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu f-2
Sax Rohmer
Second book in the Fu Manchu series.
The most incredibly evil genius of all time is back from the dead - deadlier than ever!
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FM #3
The Hand of Fu-Manchu f-3
Sax Rohmer
Third book in the Fu Manchu series: a collection of short stories about the adventures of Commissioner Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie in stopping Dr. Fu Manchu from becoming the ruler of the civilized world.
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FM #5
The Mask of Fu Manchu f-5
Sax Rohmer
This book, #5 of 14 in the Fu Manchu series, is a direct continuation of the previous entry, "The Daughter of Fu Manchu". Thus, a reading of that earlier story is fairly essential when going into this one.
The story this time concerns Fu's attempts to steal the so-called relics of El Mokanna from Sir Lionel. These relics will enable him to foster an Islamic uprising that will sweep the world. The action jumps from Persia to Cairo, to adventure on the high seas and then back to jolly old London. We are treated to Ogboni killers, mind-control drugs, dervishes, metal dissolvers, a "ghost mosque," and amnesia.
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FM #6
The Bride of Fu Manchu f-6
Sax Rohmer
A strange epidemic is sweeping the Riviera. In desperation the French authorities call upon Dr Petrie to find an answer. During this crisis, a mysterious siren on the beach captivates Alan Sterling. She tells him her name only – Fleurette – and flees. When Petrie’s lab cultures show up sleeping sickness and plague, they call in Sir Denis Nayland Smith. It is not long before their investigations lead them to Fleurette – and to Dr Fu Manchu.
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FM #7
The Trail of Fu Manchu f-7
Sax Rohmer
The advenuters of Nayland Smith continue as the fearless hero once again squares off with the diabolical Fu Manchu! _______________ This book, the seventh of 14 in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series, finds the good Dr. in pretty desperate straits following the events of book #6, "The Bride of Fu Manchu." In this installment, he is a hunted man, cut off from his funds, the bulk of his Si-Fan associates, and the elixir vitae that is preserving his life. This book is something of a radical departure from the previous six in that there is no first-person narrator, but at the same time hearkens back to the tone of the first three volumes in the series, in that the action takes place in the Surrey and Limehouse regions of London. Nayland Smith, Dr. Petrie and Alan Sterling are all back, as are Fleurette and Fah Lo Suee. This book introduces the character of Inspector Gallaho from Scotland Yard, as cool and tough an ally as any bunch of Fu fighters could hope for. The story this time concerns Fu Manchu's kidnapping of Fleurette Petrie away from her father. There is also a wonderful side plot in which it is discovered that Fu has been making his own gold, alchemist style, in an abandoned tunnel under the Thames River. The raiding of this factory takes up fully 1/4 of the book, and is a very well done and suspenseful set piece. Multiple narrative strands converge here in bravura manner; a first-person narrative could not have allowed for these wonderful scenes. One of the long-standing characters in the series meets an end here, and it is a shocking moment when it comes.
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FM #8
FM #9
The Drums of Fu Manchu f-9
Sax Rohmer
In this volume, #9 of 14 in the Fu Manchu series, we find that Fu has decided that, in the interests of world peace, all warmongering European dictators must be brought to task, and either desist in their belligerent ways, or die a macabre death. Actually, it isn't so much genuine world peace that the good doctor is interested in, but rather a state that is more conducive to the eventual takeover by his Si-Fan organization. While the book does seem to make the case that Nazi and Fascist dictators are preferable to the "yellow menace" as represented by the Manchu man, it still shows those men to be overbearing, arrogant and ripe for being brought down. The book is certainly racist (to a degree, all the other entries in the series are, too), as the reviewers below mention, but at the same time it does make a plea for peace and sanity in the year before WW2 broke out...
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FM #10
FM #11
The Shadow of Fu Manchu f-11
Sax Rohmer
THE BRAIN COLLECTOR! What had become of Dr. Sven Helson, inventor of the remarkable Helson lamp? What mystery surrounded the disappearance of Professor Chiozza, the scientist who developed the starship, Stratoplane? Nayland Smith posed these questions to Morris Craig whose own invention, the transmuter, could make nuclear warfare obsolete. If someone was kidnapping the greatest scientific minds in the world, Craig was certainly a candidate. In the laboratory of Dr. Fu Manchu great men worked in fear of their lives! Their work, when completed, would give the evil doctor the power of life and death over every nation in the world. These men were possessed of the greatest reasoning faculties on our planet. Yet Fu Manchu knew the method that inevitably conquers over reason-- The Power Of Terror And Force!
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FM #12
Re-enter Dr Fu Manchu f-12
Sax Rohmer
A tall, gaunt man stood there. A man with a phenomenally high forehead crowned with a black cap; a man whose strange piercing eyes could be felt even when they were not seen. He was unmistakably Chinese…he was Dr. Fu Manchu. And standing there he radiated the supreme power to do the deed only Fu Manchu would dare--the theft of a complete atom bomb!
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FM #13
Emperor Fu Manchu f-13
Sax Rohmer
CHINA -- A LAND OF TONGS AND TERROR! Adrift in the lonely rice fields of Northern China, American agent Tony McKay found himself face to face with the most diabolical evil he had ever encountered. The "Cold Men," spiritless creatures that did the unscrupulous bidding of the most dangerous secret organization on earth-- The Si Fan! What freak of nature had caused this horrible revival of living dead? Hidden in the mountains of Communist China, the terrible leader of the Si Fan cast his web of intrigue and death. McKay would learn that where Zombies walk and murder is the law--the dead will not be still. . . such is the realm of--Fu Manchu!
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