The Fu Manchu Omnibus series
from Allison & Busby Ltd.
Allison & Busby 's decision to
re-issue all the Fu Manchu books was a very pleasant surprise. For years, when I would
insidiously introduce new readers to Fu Manchu, they would begin to collect the books. The
first titles were always easy, but getting them all, at a reasonable price, was a real
challenge. Thank you Allison & Busby.
The brief plot summaries provided by Allison & Busby are also excellent. They are,
as intended, tantalizing for new readers, but they are equally capable of jarring the
memory of old fans who will doubtless feel it's time to read them again.
Sax Rohmer. The Fu Manchu Omnibus. Volume 1, 1996.
The Mystery of Fu Manchu: Sir Crichton Davey lies Dead. Under the
sleeve of his smoking jacket, among the tracks of cocaine needles, is a red mark like the
imprint of painted lips -- the deadly Zayat Kiss. The power of Fu Manchu is far reaching
and only his arch enemy, Nayland Smith, and his trusted companion, Dr. Petrie, can combat
this evil genious of the Orient.
The Devil Doctor: The Reverend Eltham returns to England with the name
of a secret correspondent in China. He is followed by the malevolent Fu Manchu, who is
willing to use all his diabolical powers to get this information -- but Nayland Smith and
Dr. Petrie are there to thwart him.
The Si-Fan Mysteries: The murder of Sir Gregory Hale, home from India
with a vital message for Nayland Smith, sets Smith and Dr. Petrie once more on the track
of the evil doctor, leading to the unravelling of a malignant and fantastic plot to
dominate the world.
Sax Rohmer. The Fu Manchu Omnibus. Volume 2, June 1997.
The Daughter of Fu Manchu:
Sir Lionel Barton, the great Orientalist, is dead. Or is he? Why does Fu Manchu come out
of retirement to confront his daughter and will he really side with his arch enemy Nayland
Smith against her?
The Mask of Fu Manchu: Dr Van Berg has been stabbed to the heart
from behind whilst defending a green box. Why? What is the connection between his murder
and Fu Manchu's wedding gift to Shah Greville's bride?
Fu Manchu's Bride: What has a lone girl sitting on a beach at Ste
Claire de la Roche have to do with Fu Manchu an Dr Petrie, amiable assistant to Sir
Nayland Smith? Is there a connection with the epidemic of sleeping sickness which is
sweeping the Riviera?
Sax Rohmer. The Fu Manchu Omnibus. Volume 3, May 1998.
The Trail of Fu
Manchu: It was the great fog of 1935 -- the worst in living memory. Visibility
was nil. P. C. Ireland was guarding Professor Ambroso, No one is to enter or leave the
house. Heavy breathing and a vague shuffling sound alerted the constable. He raised his
lantern and sprang towards the sound. He had a glimpse of -- something. It rather shook
him. It might have been a crouching man, or it might have been an animal. The queer shape
sprang aside and was lost in the fog. Then came a muffled scream -- the voice of a woman.
'Help! For God's sake help me!' A hurried call to Wandsworth police station and soon
ex-Assistant Commissioner Sir Denis Nayland Smith is on the trail of Fu Manchu.
President Fu Manchu: America is seeking a new president. An outside
organization is trying to gain control of the country, placing the United States under the
domination of some shadowy being, unamed, who apparently controls inexhaustible supplies
not only of capital but also of men. Federal Agent 56, Sir Denis Nayland Smith, knows who
that being is. His old enemy Dr. Fu Manchu. He, for one, is determined that Fu Manchu will
not be the next American president.
Re-Enter Fu Manchu: It was a 'go anywhere, do anything' advertisement
that attrcted Brian Merrick like a moth to a flame. It launched him on a mission that was
to take him from London to Cairo and then to a penthouse in New York. It involved, too,
Sir Nayland Smith -- but a strange, nervous Nayland Smith . . . What Merrick did not know
was that he was an important cog in a diabolical plan to rule the world. A plan so
ingenious, and so evil, that only one man could be its originator -- Dr. Fu Manchu.
Sax Rohmer. The Fu Manchu Omnibus. Volume 4, (November 1999).
The Drums of Fu Manchu: The sound of the
drums carries a warning to fourteen world leaders who stand in the way of Fu Manchu’s
desire for world domination: surrender to his schemes, or die at the hands of his secret
army. Even Nayland Smith has been marked for death by the beating of the drums…
Shadow of Fu Manchu: The devil doctor
plots to control the greatest weapon ever created – a weapon which dwarfs the power
of the atomic bomb and which Nayland Smith must, at all costs, keep from falling into the
hands of the most dangerous man in the world.
Emperor Fu Manchu: No one in the
Western world could be sure what lay behind the Bamboo Curtain, in the remote province of
Szechuan. Only Nayland Smith suspects that the mysterious Master whom it hides, the true
power behind Communist China, is in fact his old enemy, in a new disguise. His young
undercover agent, Tony McKay, must enter Fu Manchu’s domain to penetrate the veil of
secrecy.
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