WHO WAS SUMURU? It was said that she was an ice-cold, fascinating genius whose hypnotic powers impelled all men to do her bidding. It was said she was a fanatic who ruled her followers with oriental despots. It was said . . . But what was the truth? Nobody really knew although two men knew part of it—sir Miles Tristram, just returned from Cairo, and Dr. Steel Maitland of the Secret Service. But Tristram died by the hand of a beautiful woman and his secret died with him. That left Maitland alone to follow the trail through Sumuru's shadowy underworld and it almost proved to be a task more than he could handle. In Sins of Sumuru, Sax Rohmer, creator of the famous Fu Manchu novels, has written another masterly story of fear and excitement.

Of Sins of Sumuru, the Manchester Evening News wrote: Dr. Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer's celebrated character, gives way to a woman—Sumuru—in this new novel. But Rohmer's sure touch remains. His feminine epitome of wickedness is as fine a piece of imaginative character drawing as the notorious doctor, and the suspense of a well-knit plot never relaxes one iota. Slaves of Sumuru is another equally absorbing of Rohmer's stories of mystery and imagination—a story of murder and violence—again featuring the enigmatic woman who all men feared and few men knew.

Adventure

A torrid, beautiful woman from the East, she loved crime for its own sake - and killed men as wantonly as she provoked them. SUMURU loved crime for its own sake - she commanded men and they obeyed - and she killed them as readily as she charmed them. THE UNKNOWN MAN brought into the little Surrey hospital suffering from multiple injuries - until he was snatched from under the noses of the cops, and disappeared into the blue. THE PUMA - ravening beast of man - kept in check by lash and chain. INSPECTOR GILLIGAN of Scotland Yard breaks through the web of evil woven by the weirdly beautiful oriental woman, to find unspeakable horror at its centre. THIS MASTERPIECE OF THE MACABRE RANKS WITH THE BEST EVER WRITTEN BY SAX ROHMER, ONE OF THE REALLY GREAT NAMES OF MYSTERY FICTION.