Lincoln Hayes, New York's most eligible bachelor, has found in a chapter of the centuries-old Book of Thoth, a secret which he believes will enable him to discover a priceless Egyptian formula. But before he can leave for Egypt the manuscript vanishes and with it that cryptic Egyptian gentleman, Mohammed Bey. Involved then with sinister underworld forces, functioning with Oriental subtlety and precision, Hayes starts his search. In London, fast on the trail of Mohammed Bey and the missing Book of Thoth, he meets Hatasu, beautiful but enigmatic, the last of a line which counted Cleopatra as one of its younger members. He learns that the lovely Egyptian girl and the cult she represents are in some way involved with the missing manuscript, and their meeting leads to strange and mysterious results.

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Brood of the Witch Queen

In this novel the author has created a character out of Egypt that has all the sinister power of evil of the Adepts. This character is Anthony Ferrara, slim, red-lipped and repellently effeminate. When a student at Oxford, Anthony with his mummies, his mysterious relics and rooms reeking with the elusive odors of a joss house, was barely tolerated by his fellow classmates. He was equally repellent to the friends of his foster father, a distinguished Egyptologist, who had adopted him under strangely mysterious circumstances. But for Myra, a niece, and a co-heir and to other women, Ferrara possessed a fascinating attraction. The action of the story moves smoothly yet fearfully to a dramatic solution in which Anglo-Saxon wit and daring conquers the sinister power of the East through fighting it with its own weapons. A startling, weird and gripping story.

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Dope

Do you know the kind of life the drug fiend lives? Have you ever imagined what it must be like to be a slave to Chandu -- the days of fierce craving, the ecstatic moment of fantastic dreams and exaltation and afterward the black despair which only more drugs can relieve? Sax Rohmer paints an unforgettable picture of this life in his story -- "Dope" which is based upon actual conditions as they existed in London.

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Dream Detective, The

Morris Klaw, whose powerful and unique personality pervade the entire volume, and whose intuition for the solving of queer problems and crimes frequently causes Scotland Yard to appeal to him for aid, is a character as unusual as the well-known Sherlock Holmes, and perhaps more human in some ways, although his powers are apparently almost supernatural in others ...

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Green Eyes of Bast, The

Who was the woman with the strange green catlike eyes? Was she really half-woman and half-cat -- the ancient Egyptian goddess Bast -- or was she just a clever criminal. That is what John Addison tries to find out as he investigates weird murders and lives through strange experiences. He suspects that the mysterious Doctor Greefe holds the key to the secret of it all -- but the Doctor is more than a match for him. Never has Sax Rohmer written a mystery novel that is more spine chilling than this tale of an ancient power of evil that lived today. A fantasy novel of "...ancient magic at work in modern times.".

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Grey Face

The horrible grey face. It appeared in Limehouse; it appeared in Soho, and in the most fashionable quarters of London, and one night a woman dies in an evil district gasping "The Grey Face -- The Grey Face." While Douglas Carey is trying to clear up a gigantic plot, the face appears to him and his reason totters. The girl he loves begins to mistrust him and accuses him of horrible deeds. The Grey Face appears to her and she joins with her lover in an attempt to solve the sinister mystery. The climax is tremendous, incident having followed upon incident with such rapidity, that the expose of the whole fabric is exceptionally dramatic. A hair raising mystery story.

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Moon of Madness

Major O'Shea has come to Madeira on board a German liner following a certain ruthless character, when into his calculations comes hurtling the unexpected in the form of romance. A willful visit aboard the liner by Nanette, who is visiting Madeira with her parents, brings the pair together. The girl immediately falls in love with the debonair and dashing young man whose mission is such a deep secret. O'Shea, knowing the desperateness of the situation, repels the sentiment which he himself feels for the girl. Thus it is that they enter the lists against the devilish plots of a gang bent on destroying the Empire and thus it is that the devil-may-care young Irishman comes to have a heartier respect for the abilities of a flapper who at first seems to think of nothing more serious than to swim out to a liner for a glass of beer.

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Quest of the Sacred Slipper, The

The Sacred Slipper of the Prophet Mohammed, stolen from Mecca and taken to England to be placed in the London Museum, started a train of awesome happenings that baffled the wits of Scotland Yard and struck terror to all men. Hassan of Aleppo was the guardian of the Sacred Relics of Mohammed, and in pursuit of the stolen slipper, he brought with him to London some of his servants, who were fiends in the shape of dwarfish men, possessing uncanny and terrible skill while under the influence of a drug, and with but one passion -- the passion to kill. The maelstrom of deviltry into which these ghastly creatures plunged all who came in contact with the Sacred Slipper, the diabolical arts employed by Hassan of Aleppo, himself, a stately and gentle-looking old man until one saw his velvet eyes blaze with passionate fury; and the complication caused by the cleverest crook in America, Earl Dexter, who was determined that the Museum should be relieved of the slipper.

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She Who Sleeps

Who is she -- she who sleeps? The secret papyrus said she was the Princess Zalithea put to sleep by a princess known to the Egyptian magi of old -- slumbering through ages, waiting to be awakened. Incredible story! Yet Danzibar vouched for the papyrus -- and Mr. Cumberland, famous student of Egypt, decided to take an expedition to Egypt to find her. But young Barry Cumberland could have sworn he had seen her -- the same Egyptian princess whose picture was on Danzibar's papyrus -- on the balcony of a house near New York -- the night of his motor accident ...

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Tales of Chinatown

Here is a first-hand description of some of the doings in the slimy, mysterious places of the largest city in England. Here the detectives of Scotland Yard know of many strange things and see the results of the workings of such evil minds as Dr. Fu Manchu. The author is one of the few men who has penetrated the secrets of the Limehouse underworld sufficiently to enable him to write about them authentically and interestingly. Here are sudden deaths in peculiar ways, mysterious disappearances and all sorts of crimes --- where human life is valued none too highly.

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Tales of Secret Egypt

The scenes of this story are laid in Egypt -- Abu-Tabah, the inscrutable Egyptian, who appears and disappears so mysteriously, is not so blood-curdling a villain as Fu Manchu, but his exploits possess the same breathless interest that characterized the activities of the yellow doctor. In the latter half of the book, notably in the story, "The Valley of the Sorceress," there is an element new in Rohmer's work -- that of the supernatural ...

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Yellow Shadows

What was "the whistling death?" That was the question that confronted Scotland Yard one night as the thick yellow fog rolled heavily into the mysterious room where Limehouse's richest Chinaman lay murdered. Nothing was further from the mind of Bernard Hope, sitting comfortably in his compartment of the 8:05 train from Blackwall, than thoughts of crime or death -- but when an exotically beautiful girl with an olive skin and slanting eyes stepped suddenly in, evidently badly frightened, and begged him for protection -- he found himself caught in a net that nearly cost him his life.

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Yu'an Hee See Laughs

Not since the sinister Dr. Fu Manchu himself has there been a more fascinating villain than Yu'an Hee See, who moves like a dark cloud of evil through the breathless pages of this new book of mystery and adventure. Limehouse, Marseilles, the near East, the placid Mediterranean are the scenes of his murderous battle with Dawson Haigh of Scotland Yard, with the beautiful girl Haig loves as a pawn and a vast fortune of gold as the stake. This is Sax Rohmer's most exciting book since "The Hand of Fu Manchu."

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