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Collected for the first time comes this volumes of strange happenings and weird mysteries . . .

Paul Harley, the private investigator of Chancery Lane, and star of Rohmer's novels Bat Wing and Fire Tongue, embarks to uncover the truth behind seven odd and unexplainable murderous events, including the short novel, "The Voice of Kali," a work out-of-print for nearly ninety years.

Included are

• The Voice of Kali
• The House of the Golden Joss
• The White Hat
• The Man with the Shaven Skull
• The Black Mandarin
• The Dyke Grange Mystery
• Red Mist

With an introduction by William Patrick Maynard, author of The Destiny of Fu Manchu and The Terror of Fu Manchu.

Selected and edited by Gene Christie.

The Voice of Kali Sax Rohmer Gene Christie William Patrick Maynard 9781884449390 Books

I have been reading Sax Rohmer since the mid 1950s,when on a foggy night,in suburban London, I entered the Barnes public library with its welcoming bright lights and warmth, and emerged with Methuen editions of two Fu Manchu novels. Once outside as Sax Rohmer would have written- King fog held sway. In 1955 Rohmer was still writing, and London smog from coal fires was as much a fact as in 1912 ,when Rohmer was writing stories such as these ,and those in the two companion volumes, edited by Gene Christie, published by Black Dog. I would never have thought as a ten year old,that I would have had the opportunity to review anything by Sax Rohmer,years later, having collected his works in antiquarian bookshops ,as and when luck presented the odd volume. Now ,as predicted by Cay Van Ash in his biography of Rohmer, new readers are discovering Rohmer. Fu Manchu is being republished.Van Ash ,some years back ,added two novels to the series, and in 2009 and 2012 William Patrick Maynard ,authorised to continue the series is about to have his third Fu Manchu novel published. The informative introduction to this volume is written by Maynard, whose first two books are reviewed by me, and others ,on Amazon. The story The Voice of Kali necessitated a fifty year wait to read, but for me the gem of this collection, featuring not Nayland Smith and Fu Manchu , but Paul Harley of Chancery Lane ,one of Rohmers other detectives, is the novela The Black Mandarin, which encapsulates examples of style, description,characterisation and atmosphere which are quintessentially Rohmer. It is worth quoting briefly some examples. "A keen breeze from the north was blowing as the Daimler moved off into West India Dock road." " Angry clouds drifted across the moon,and there was a wintery bite in the air." " Yet Chinatown seemed asleep. In a lull of wind, sounds reached me from the docks....the clangor of engines, the hooting of some tug coming out of the pool, but from the Causeway area came no voice no light." This is Rohmers Limehouse, with its dark alleys, concealing a world of mystery, juxtaposed with the reassuring reality of a traction engine drawing a string of lorries of the day " with something cheery in the red glow from the little furnace reflected upon the faces of the two men in the cab."Harley and Knox then don monastic cowls to enter a meeting of a hostile group, where after inevitable discovery Knox is hypnotised by Mme de Medici- a woman with "the most extraordinary amber_coloured eyes which I have ever met in a human being." Those tiger eyes" . " I could not turn aside! I was entrapped by some strange magic." This Madame de Medici like the green eyed Fu Manchu comes from the East, and regrettably only appears in a few stories and no novels, but those who know this classic mystery writer will recognise these short extracts as vintage Rohmer at his descriptive best. This is far removed from helicopter chases, combat gear, street violence and GPS tracking that can dominate in some modern crime novels, without considering their television adaptations. Rohmer, like Conan Doyle and other writers of his day produced short stories for the magazines of the time, read by folk at home by the fireside , or during city journeys to work in a pre smartphone age. Modernity has positive features, but writers of this era still captivate with skill, on paper or on electronic readers, and because they are well written give sudden even unintended insights into the life styles of that distant era of flickering early cinema without diesel rigs Thanks to Gene Christie ,we now have three volumes of lost or hard to find Sax Rohmer stories to enjoy.

Product details Paperback 212 pages Publisher Black Dog Books (March 16, 2013) Language English ISBN-10 1884449395

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The Voice of Kali Sax Rohmer Gene Christie William Patrick Maynard 9781884449390 Books Reviews

I have been reading Sax Rohmer since the mid 1950s,when on a foggy night,in suburban London, I entered the Barnes public library with its welcoming bright lights and warmth, and emerged with Methuen editions of two Fu Manchu novels. Once outside as Sax Rohmer would have written- King fog held sway. In 1955 Rohmer was still writing, and London smog from coal fires was as much a fact as in 1912 ,when Rohmer was writing stories such as these ,and those in the two companion volumes, edited by Gene Christie, published by Black Dog. I would never have thought as a ten year old,that I would have had the opportunity to review anything by Sax Rohmer,years later, having collected his works in antiquarian bookshops ,as and when luck presented the odd volume. Now ,as predicted by Cay Van Ash in his biography of Rohmer, new readers are discovering Rohmer. Fu Manchu is being republished.Van Ash ,some years back ,added two novels to the series, and in 2009 and 2012 William Patrick Maynard ,authorised to continue the series is about to have his third Fu Manchu novel published. The informative introduction to this volume is written by Maynard, whose first two books are reviewed by me, and others ,on . The story The Voice of Kali necessitated a fifty year wait to read, but for me the gem of this collection, featuring not Nayland Smith and Fu Manchu , but Paul Harley of Chancery Lane ,one of Rohmers other detectives, is the novela The Black Mandarin, which encapsulates examples of style, description,characterisation and atmosphere which are quintessentially Rohmer. It is worth quoting briefly some examples. "A keen breeze from the north was blowing as the Daimler moved off into West India Dock road." " Angry clouds drifted across the moon,and there was a wintery bite in the air." " Yet Chinatown seemed asleep. In a lull of wind, sounds reached me from the docks....the clangor of engines, the hooting of some tug coming out of the pool, but from the Causeway area came no voice no light." This is Rohmers Limehouse, with its dark alleys, concealing a world of mystery, juxtaposed with the reassuring reality of a traction engine drawing a string of lorries of the day " with something cheery in the red glow from the little furnace reflected upon the faces of the two men in the cab."Harley and Knox then don monastic cowls to enter a meeting of a hostile group, where after inevitable discovery Knox is hypnotised by Mme de Medici- a woman with "the most extraordinary amber_coloured eyes which I have ever met in a human being." Those tiger eyes" . " I could not turn aside! I was entrapped by some strange magic." This Madame de Medici like the green eyed Fu Manchu comes from the East, and regrettably only appears in a few stories and no novels, but those who know this classic mystery writer will recognise these short extracts as vintage Rohmer at his descriptive best. This is far removed from helicopter chases, combat gear, street violence and GPS tracking that can dominate in some modern crime novels, without considering their television adaptations. Rohmer, like Conan Doyle and other writers of his day produced short stories for the magazines of the time, read by folk at home by the fireside , or during city journeys to work in a pre smartphone age. Modernity has positive features, but writers of this era still captivate with skill, on paper or on electronic readers, and because they are well written give sudden even unintended insights into the life styles of that distant era of flickering early cinema without diesel rigs Thanks to Gene Christie ,we now have three volumes of lost or hard to find Sax Rohmer stories to enjoy.