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Bibliography
Novels and plays
Seven Days (Broadway comedy, 1909)
The Window at the White Cat (1910)
Where There's a Will (1912)
The Cave on Thundercloud (1912)
Mind Over Motor (1912)
The Case of Jennie Brice (1913)
Street of Seven Stars (1914)
The After House: a story of love, mystery and a private yacht (1914)
K (1915)
Bab, a Sub-Deb (1916)
Long live the King! (1917)
The Amazing Interlude (1918)
Tenting To-Night: a chronicle of sport and adventure in Glacier park and the Cascade mountains (1918)
Dangerous Days (1919)
Salvage (1919)
A Poor Wise Man (1920)
The Bat (with Avery Hopwood, 1920)
The Breaking Point (1922)
The Red Lamp (1925)
The Mystery Lamp (1925)
Two Flights Up (1928)
The Truce of God (1920)
The Door (1930)
The Double Alibi (1932)
The Album (1933)
The State Vs Elinor Norton (1933)
The Wall (1938)
The Great Mistake (1940)
The Yellow Room (1945)
The Swimming Pool (1952)
The Wandering Knife (1952)
The Frightened Wife (1953) (Special Edgar Award, 1954)
Series
Miss Cornelia Van Gorder The Man in Lower Ten (1906)
The Circular Staircase (1907)
"The Bat" (1920)
Letitia (Tish) Carberry The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911)
Tish (1916)
More Tish (1921)
The Book of Tish (1926)
Tish Plays the Game (1926)
Tish Marches On (1937)
Hilda Adams Miss Pinkerton (1932)
Haunted Lady (1942)
Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950)
Collections
Love Stories (1919)
Affinities: and other stories (1920)
Sight Unseen / The Confession (omnibus) (1921)
Temperamental People (1924)
Nomad's Land (1926)
The Romantics (1929)
Mary Roberts Rinehart 's Crime Book (1933)
Married People (1937)
Familiar faces; stories of people you know (1941)
Alibi for Isabel (1944)
The Confession / Sight Unseen (1959)
Autobiography
My Story (1931, revised 1948)
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Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.
Born in Birmingham he had an entirely working class education and early career before beginning to write. His first published work was in 1903, the short story The Mysterious Mummy for Pearson's Weekly. He made his early living writing comedy sketches for music hall performers and short stories and serials for magazines. In 1909 he married Rose Knox. He published his first novel Pause! anonymously in 1910 and the first Fu Manchu story, The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, was serialized over 1912-13. It was an immediate success with its fast paced story of Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie facing the worldwide conspiracy of the 'Yellow Peril'. The Fu Manchu stories, together with those featuring Gaston Max or Morris Klaw, made Rohmer one of the most successful and well-paid writers in of the 1920s and 1930s. But Rohmer was very poor at handling his wealth. After World War II the Rohmers moved to New York.
A number of films were made featuring Dr. Fu Manchu. Warner Oland starred in three early talkies: 1929's The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, 1930's The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu, and 1931's Daughter of the Dragon. Boris Karloff starred in 1932's The Mask of Fu Manchu. There was a Republic Pictures serial, Drums of Fu Manchu in 1940 and a short-lived TV series, The Adventures of Fu Manchu in 1956. The character was revived after his creator's death for a series of variable quality starring Christopher Lee: The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967), The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968), and The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969). Pulp film legend Harry Alan Towers produced two films based on the Sumuru character in the 1960s, and an updated space fantasy version in 2002. Legendary comic actor Peter Sellers starred in the 1980