ppint. ● 30th Jul 2019
| | the fiendish, insidious, and perpetually mysterious dr. fu manchu series #1:
#1: "the mystery of dr. fu-manchu" (1913), (this novel)
aka "the insidious dr. fu-manchu" (1913), q.v.
#2: "the devil doctor'' (1916), q.v.
aka ''the return of dr. fu-manchu" (1916), q.v.
#3: "the si-fan mysteries" (1917), q.v.
aka "the hand of fu-manchu" (1917), q.v.
#4: "the daughter of fu-manchu" (1931), q.v.
aka "daughter of fu-manchu", q.v.
#5: "the mask of fu manchu" (1932), q.v.
aka ''the mask of fu-manchu'' (uk 1967), q.v.
#6: "the bride of fu manchu" (1933), q.v.
aka "fu manchu's bride" (usa 1933), q.v.
#7: "the trail of fu manchu" (1934), q.v.
#8: "president fu manchu" (1936), q.v.
aka ''president fu-manchu'' (uk 1967), q.v.
#9: "the drums of fu manchu" (1939), q.v.
#10: "the island of fu manchu" (1941), q.v.
#11: "shadow of fu manchu" (1948), q.v.
aka ''the shadow of fu manchu'' (mmpb 1966 & ff.), q.v.
#12: "emperor fu manchu" (1959), q.v.
#13: "re-enter fu manchu" (1957), q.v.
aka ''re-enter dr. fu-manchu'' (uk 1967), q.v.
#14: "the wrath of fu manchu and other stories" (1973), q.v.
aka "the wrath of fu manchu" (per the mmpb cover 1976) (i've no note of the title page of this book)
almost uniform omnibus edition published by allison & busby:
i do not know if all five exist in printings with the volume numbers in "arabic" numerals on the covers,
nor if all the reprints of the first two retained their original roman numerals.
#O1: "the fu manchu omnibus volume I (/1)" (1996), q.v.
of #1, #2 & #3
#O2: "the fu manchu omnibus volume II (/2)" (1997), q.v.
of #4, #5 & #6
#O3: "the fu manchu omnibus volume 3" (1998), q.v.
of #7, #8 & #13
#O4: "the fu manchu omnibus volume 4" (1999), q.v.
of #9, #11 & #12
#O5: "the fu manchu omnibus volume 5" (2001), q.v.
of #10 & the fu manchu novella & short stories from #14, but not the non-fu stories from that collection)
the hyphenation - or not - of "fu manchu" - or "fu-manchu" - seems to've been somewhat haphazard.
n.b. under no circumstances to be confused with chou en/n. ginsberg, a fiendish master of mysterious crime / the popular radio comedy character played by kenneth williams in the bbc's ''round the horne''... |