Male : Novelist & Short Story Writer. Married Elizabeth Knox in 1909. He made a fortune from his books being turned into films

Nationality : Irish parents Place of Birth : Birmingham

Date of Birth : 1883 Date of Death : 1959 Age : 76

Pseudonyms : Real Name = Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward. Michael Furey

Other Work : Journalist

1910-1915
Pause ! (1910 Greening) - With George Robey. publ anonymously. - ss
Little Tich (1911 Greening) - autobiography ghost-written by Rohmer
The Mystery of Fu Manchu (1913 Methuen)
[This spawned a whole series of Fu Manchu films from 1929 right through to 1979]
(in US as "The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu" 1913 McBride Nast)
The Sins of Severac Bablon (1914 Cassell)
The Romance of Sorcery (1914 Methuen) (1924 Dutton)
The Yellow Claw (1915 Methuen) (1915 McBride, NY)

1916-1920
The Devil Doctor (1916 Methuen)
(in US as "The Return of Dr Fu-Manchu" 1916 Robert McBride, NY)
The Exploits of Captain O'Hagan (1916 Jarrolds) - ss
The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917 Methuen) (in US as "The Hand of Fu Manchu" 1917 A L Burt, NY)
Brood of the Witch Queen (1918 Pearson) (1924 Doubleday Page)
The Orchard of Tears (1918 Methuen)
Tales of Secret Egypt (1918 Methuen) (1920 McBride) - ss
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper (1919 Pearson) (1919 Doubleday Page)
Dope : A Story of Chinatown and the Drug Traffic (1919 Cassell) (1919 McBride)
The Golden Scorpion (1919 Methuen) (1920 Burt, NY) (1920 McBride)
The Green Eyes of Bast (1920 Cassell) (1920 McBride)
The Dream Detective : Being Some Accounts of the Methods of Moris Klaw (1920 Jarrolds) - ss
(1925 Doubleday Page, NY)
The Haunting of Low Fennel (1920 Pearson) - ss

1921-1930
Bat-Wing (1921 Cassell) (1921 Doubleday Page)
Fire-Tongue (1921 Cassell) (1922 Doubleday Page)
Tales of Chinatown (1922 Cassell) (1922 Doubleday Page) - ss
Grey Face (1924 Cassell) (1924 Doubleday Page)
Yellow Shadows (1925 Cassell) (1926 Doubleday Page)
Moon of Madness (1927 Cassell) (1927 Doubleday Page)
She Who Sleeps (1928 Cassell) (1928 Doubleday Doran)
The Book of Fu Manchu (1929 Hurst & Blackett) (1929 McBride)
The Emperor of America (1929 Cassell) (1929 Doubleday Doran)
The Day the World Ended (1930 Cassell) (1930 Doubleday Doran)

1931-1940
The Daughter of Fu Manchu (1931 Cassell) (1931 Doubleday Doran)
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932 Doubleday) (1933 Cassell)
Yu'an Hee See Laughs (1932 Cassell) (1932 Doubleday Doran)
Tales of East and West (1932 Cassell) (1933 Doubleday) - ss
The Bride of Fu Manchu (1933 Cassell) (in US as "Fu Manchu's Bride" 1933 Doubleday Doran)
The Trail of Fu Manchu (1934 Doubleday Doran) (1934 Cassell)
The Bat Flies Low (1935 Cassell) (1935 Doubleday Doran)
White Velvet (1936 Cassell)
President Fu Manchu (1936 Cassell) (1936 Doubleday)
The Drums of Fu Manchu (1939 Cassell) (1939 Doubleday Doran)
Salute to Bazarada & Other Stories (1939 Cassell)

1941-1950
The Island of Fu Manchu (1941 Cassell) (1941 Doubleday Doran Crime Club, NY)
Seven Sins (1943 McBride NY) (1944 Cassell)
Egyptian Nights (1944 Hale) (in US as "Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt" 1944 McBride, NY) - ss
Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948 Doubleday) (1949 Herbert Jenkins)
Hangover House (1949 Random House) (1950 Herbert Jenkins)
Wulfheim (1950 Jarrolds) - publ as Michael Furey
Nude in Mink (1950 Fawcett Pb) (in Uk as "The Sins of Sumuru" 1950 Herbert Jenkins)

After 1951
Sumuru (1951 Fawcett pb) (in UK as "Slaves of Sumuru" 1952 Herbert Jenkins)
The Fire Goddess (1952 Fawcett pb, NY) (in UK as "Virgin in Flames" 1953 Herbert Jenkins)
The Moon is Red (1954 Herbert Jenkins)
The Return of Sumuru (1954 Fawcett pb) (1955 Cassell as "Sand and Satin")
Sinister Madonna (1956 Herbert Jenkins) (1956 Fawcett Pb)
Re-enter Dr Fu Manchu (1957 Fawcett pb) (1957 Herbert Jenkins)
Emperor Fu Manchu (1959 Herbert Jenkins) (1959 Fawcett pb)
The Secret of Holm Peel, and other Strange Stories (1970 Ace pb, NY) - ss
The Wrath of Fu Manchu (1973 Tom Stacey) - ss

10.30 to Folkstone Express (nd. Lloyds Home Novels No 41)

READING
Cay Van Ash & Elisabeth Sax Rohmer : Master of Villainy - A Biography
(c1972 Bowling Green University Popular Press, Ohio)