Sax Rohmer

Fire-Tongue (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

An impossible murder, an occult detective tale, and a tale within a tale -- with a solution suggested by Harry Houdini. This is a fairly predictable mystery story with enough fun and exotic detail to make it entertaining. Paul Harley is engaged by a gentleman, Sir Charles Abingdon, who fears his life is in danger. Before the man is able to adequately explain the danger the danger he dies right in front of Harley. His last words are "Fire-tongue" and "Nicol Brinn". Nicol Brinn is a famous and eccentric American explorer while Fire-Tongue means nothing to Harley. He meets the man's beautiful daughter and learns nothing form her except that she has been in disagreement with her father over the attentions of an Oriental merchant named Ormuz Khan, from Persia. Harley meets with Nicol Brinn and learns that the man has a mere passing acquaintance with the dead man, but he clearly has information about his death. Brinn steadfastly refuses to divulge any useful information and is thus very suspicious. Harley meets with Ormuz Khan, and other taking an instant dislike to him can find no connection to the murder. Harley begins a long and torturous investigation involving disguise and surveillance which leads to little until he finds a vital clue connected to India, which Harley, Sir Charles, and Brinn have all visited. This immediately sets into motion a series of events where everyone's life is in imminent danger. A particularly intricate murder mystery where almost nothing is revealed until the end. Paul Harley is noted on the dusk jacket as a psychic detective but his only obvious psychic ability is the power to sense danger, which any reasonably self-aware person would have under the circumstance. He is mainly a super competent investigator with great skill at disguise and intuition. The narrative doesn't lead itself to explaining much, but is involving in its own way. Very entertaining.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: iOnlineShopping.com
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788832550429
• Artikelnr.: 55849664

Autorenporträt

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883 - 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, Arthur Ward initially pursued a career as a civil servant before concentrating on writing full-time. He worked as a poet, songwriter and comedy sketch writer for music hall performers before creating the Sax Rohmer persona and pursuing a career writing 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. Rohmer also claimed ties to the Rosicrucians, but the validity of his claims has been questioned. His doctor and family friend Dr R. Watson Councell may have been his only legitimate connection to such organizations. His first published work came in 1903, when the short story "The Mysterious Mummy" was sold to Pearson's Weekly. Rohmer's main literary influences seem to have been Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and M. P. Shiel. 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 book Pause! anonymously in 1910.