Fire-Tongue: A Cult Traced from London to India
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A man dies gasping the words fire-tongue, and Paul Harley of Chancery Lane follows the phrase to a household in Surrey and a cult that reaches back to India. Rohmer created Fu Manchu and made a fortune from him across some forty books and films; this 1921 mystery runs the familiar machinery of the mysterious East, and the reader should see it working and judge it. Whistler and Grimshaw lead sixty plates of docks and night streets, the London and waterfront atmosphere this chase from Chancery Lane to Surrey needs.
A man dies gasping the words fire-tongue, and Paul Harley of Chancery Lane follows the phrase to a household in Surrey and a cult that reaches back to India. Rohmer created Fu Manchu and made a fortune from him across some forty books and films; this 1921 mystery runs the familiar machinery of th...
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Sax Rohmer (1883–1959) was the pen name of British author Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward. He wrote supernatural and mystery fiction in London, and his novels include Fire-Tongue, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, and Bat Wing.
Sax Rohmer (1883–1959) was the pen name of British author Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward. He wrote supernatural and mystery fiction in London, and his novels include Fire-Tongue, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, and Bat Wing.
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