The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
by Sax Rohmer (Robert M. McBride & Company, 1916)
audiobook read by John Bolen (Tantor, 2009)
Stitched-together short stories, none especially gripping. The racial depiction of Fu Manchu isn’t so problematic as the sledgehammered assertion of villainy, which itself is nothing compared to Petrie’s besotted witterings re Kâramanèh. Bolen reads as if auditioning for a Bertie Wooster gig.