The Quest of the Sacred Slipper

by Sax Rohmer

Overview

A non-stop Sax Rohmer yarn. A slipper believed to belong to the prophet Mohammed has been stolen by a British archaeologist and a Muslim sect are after all who come into contact with it, the leader of the sect Hassan of Aleppo, is very much a stand in for Rohmer most famous creation Fu Manchu. The complexity of the schemes to recover and steal the slipper are complicated even more by an American gangster, who is also after it, for his own ends. The who thing is totally unbelievable, and probably racist, but darned good fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783956767050
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	12/27/2015
Series:	Classics To Go , #848
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	354 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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, 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.