Books : The Hand of Fu-Manchu: Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Evil Doctor (New Millennium Library)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781583483299
ISBN number: 1583483292
Label: AuthorHouse
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 207
Printing Date: February 22, 2001
Publishing house: AuthorHouse
Release Date: February 22, 2001
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The Hand of Fu-Manchu, the third in the series of the Yellow Peril
stories by English writer Sax Rohmer, aka Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959), begins with the villain already dead. The mystery unfolds around this puzzling fact. With settings that include Egypt, and the ever present enigma of the East, this novel delivers the best of Rohmer.
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Not as good as the very first two Fu-Manchu books, perhaps partly due to a fair lack of Fu-Manchu.
He does have some excuse though, being shot in the head at the end of the last book, and hence assumed dead by our ertswhile heroes.
It seems he is not, though, just in a bad way, and as such, abducts a top surgeon, and Petrie to assist. Or, at least his crew does, he is having problems just sitting up and talking with a bullet in his head.
They set their sights on the Si-Fan organisation, the overlords of the good Doctor, and perhaps a mystery woman in charge.
Fu-Manchu is in a bit of trouble with them himself, it seems.
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This book is a classic must -read type book. Well written in that style only Sax Rohmer can do - and his story is one of his best. Read it, love it!!!!
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I will not address here the patent racism inherent to the plot and characters in the Fu-Manchu stories. For this discussion, see the reviews of the very first volume, The Insidious Dr Fu-Manchu. I speak only to the quality of this 2001 New Millennium Library edition of the third volume, The Hand of Fu-Manchu.
The publisher has obviously relied upon computer spell-checking, not human proof-reading. I cannot count the number of instances where the letter R is replaced by the letter N, producing legitimate but inappropriate words. For example: "he looked left and Night", "we raced down the marble staiNs", "she lifted the veil from heN face", "he produced a paiN of handcuffs".
Also, the two cryptograms featured in the plot are not accurately reproduced, as compared with the 1962 Pyramid edition. Specifically, all of the letters are in normal script, when several should be in italics.
Admittedly, these points are merely annoyances. If you enjoyed the melodramatic very first two volumes, this third is an excellent sequel.
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