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    The Wire Jacket: A Fu-Manchu Short Story
    The Wire Jacket: A Fu-Manchu Short Story
    The Wire Jacket: A Fu-Manchu Short Story
    Audiobook46 minutes

    The Wire Jacket: A Fu-Manchu Short Story

    Written by Sax Rohmer

    Narrated by B. J. Harrison

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    About this audiobook

    The night’s stillness is broken as Dr. Petrie rushes out to care for a dying patient, and the subtle machinations of villainy begin their work, and the nefarious Dr. Fu-Manchu again rears his insidious head in London.


    Arthur Henry Ward (Sax Rohmer) is best known for creating the criminal mastermind Dr. Fu-Manchu. The Wire Jacket contains the first three chapters of the novel The Return of Fu-Manchu, and can be read as a standalone story. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB.J. Harrison
    Release dateApr 9, 2022
    ISBN9781957934037
    The Wire Jacket: A Fu-Manchu Short Story
    Author

    Sax Rohmer

    Sax Rohmer (1883–1959) was a pioneering and prolific author of crime fiction, best known for his series of novels featuring the archetypal evil genius Dr. Fu-Manchu.

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