Mystery Books

  • Santa Clawed: A Novel (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)

    As Harry well knows, there’s hardly a place on earth cozier than Crozet, Virginia, at Christmastime. Snowflakes, carolers, it’

  • Ode to a Banker

    When a wealthy Athenian banker is found gruesomely murdered, Marcus Didius Falco must scour the seedy streets of ancient Rome to h

  • The Cat Who Sang for the Birds

    In this delightful new novel featuring Jim Qwilleran and his lovable cats, Koko and Yum Yum, the rites of spring are celebrat

  • Children of the Wind
  • Stillwatch

    "I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME..."Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's pa

  • Little Tales of Misogyny

    Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance.The great revival of interest in Pa

  • Favor

    Good old Stanley, always willing to do a favor. Stanley Hastings, the worst private detective in New York--maybe in the known univ

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Mystery Movies

  • Lost Highway

    This psychological thriller combines murder, mystery and deception as only David Lynch, the critically acclaimed director and writ

  • The Arrival

    Calling this 1996 science fiction thriller "a glorified B movie," isn't a criticism. Writer-director David Twohy managed to get in

  • The Next Three Days

    Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into

  • The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)

    A young man struggling to access sublimated childhood memories finds a technique that allows him to travel back to the past. Occup

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Mystery Authors

Sax Rohmer biography

 

 

Sax Rohmer

(1883 - 1959)

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 - 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.

Born in Birmingham to a working class family, Rohmer initially pursued a career as a civil servant before concentrating on writing full-time. He worked as a poet, songwriter, and comedy sketch writer in Music Hall before creating the Sax Rohmer persona and pursuing a career writing weird fiction. Like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, Rohmer claimed membership to one of the factions of the qabbalistic Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. [2] Rohmer also claimed ties to the Rosicrucians, but the validity of his claims has been questioned. His physician and family friend, Dr. R. Watson Councell may have been his only legitimate connection to such organizations. It is believed that Rohmer may have exaggerated his association in order to boost his literary reputation as an occult writer. His first published work came in 1903, when the short story The Mysterious Mummy was sold to Pearson's Weekly. He gradually transitioned from writing for Music Hall performers to concentrating on short stories and serials for magazine publication. In 1909 he married Rose Elizabeth Knox. He published his first novel Pause! anonymously in 1910 and the first Fu Manchu novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, was serialized from October 1912 - June 1913. It was an immediate success with its fast-paced story of Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie facing the worldwide conspiracy of the 'Yellow Peril'. The Fu Manchu stories, together with his more conventional detective series characters—Paul Harley, Gaston Max, Red Kerry, Morris Klaw, and The Crime Magnet—made Rohmer one of the most successful and well-paid authors of the 1920s and 1930s.

Information source: wikipedia