Excerpts from the Book 'The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu':

... the window, peering out into the road, but before you are many hours older you will know that I have good reason to be cautious. Ah, nothing suspicious! ...
... the stillness of the night. Save for the muffled throb of the rare all-night cars passing the front of the house, our vigil had been a silent ...
... you last saw him at eight o'clock last night?-to Weymouth. Eight to a quarter past. You think he has been dead nearly twenty-four hours, Petrie? Roughly, ...
... it off! With it came the wig to which it was attached and the ghastly yellow mask, deprived of its fastenings, fell from position! Here! Here! Be quick! ...
... secret defenses remain to be mentioned, he resumed and, opening a cupboard, he pointed to a row of batteries, with a number of electric bells upon ...
... mastered the dog, get out of Redmoat? I am open to admit the possibility of someone's getting in during the day whilst the gates are open, and hiding ...
... to send down from the Yard got here all right and took up a post in the road outside, where he could command a good view of the gates. He saw and heard ...
... swept from the open window towards the curtained doorway. It was a breath of the East-that stretched out a yellow hand to the West. It was symbolic ...
... any use, I'm glad I am here! He grasped my hand. There were two Chinese, in European clothes-lord, how my head throbs!-in that office door. They sand-bagged ...
... our mysterious friend, a gold band about one of her ankles gleaming in the rays of the lantern which she carried. We stood in a low-arched passage. Tie ...
... on the panes above us. In all my dealings with Dr. Fu-Manchu I had had to face nothing so uncanny as this. What Burmese ghoul had he loosed? Was it outside, ...
... in a dark loin-cloth, walked beside me, carrying his huge knife, and sometimes glancing at me with his blood-lustful eyes. Never before, I venture ...
... voice, it is altogether too far from the court below for our cunning Chinese friends to have fixed a ladder with one of their bamboo rod arrangements. ...
... of the Doctor's servants ascended-probably to ascertain if the hashish had acted successfully. That was the yellow dream-face which West saw bending over ...
... was so full of shadows, whose real character was so inscrutable, whose beauty, whose charm truly might mask the cunning of a serpent. I spoke to her. S-SH! ...
... a trap. It would require all his genius, I thought, to save him to-night. Unless his suspicions were aroused by the unlocked door, his capture was imminent. Someone ...
... rendered the vista of the cellars faintly luminous, and visible to me from where I lay. Fu-Manchu spoke softly. His voice, its guttural note alternating ...
... matter-to anyone? was her answer to questions respecting herself. And she would droop her lashes over her dark eyes. The dacoits whom the Chinaman ...
... held my arm tightly. Her brother was searching the room with big, velvet black eyes. I studied the faces of the several visitors and Smith was staring ...
... ask you then, to absolve me from the charge of ill completing my work for any curiosity with which this narrative may leave the reader burdened is ...