Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Robert Bevan and John Lavery. A relic of the Prophet — a slipper — is brought to London by an archaeologist who dies for it, and a brotherhood with a knife follows it through the museums and the fog. Rohmer created Fu Manchu and made a fortune from him across some forty books and films; this 1913 thriller runs the same machinery, and the reader should see plainly what it does with the East and decide what that is worth. Fifty-nine plates of fog, rain and lamplit London streets by Grimshaw and Sickert run beside the chase, matching its murk plate for plate.