The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives by Judika Illes

Author:Judika Illes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633410664
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

CASE OF THE

VEIL OF ISIS

Sax Rohmer

Sax Rohmer (1883–1959) was the pen name of Arthur Henry Ward, born in Birmingham, England, to Irish immigrant parents. He is most renowned—or notorious—as the creator of the fictional character, master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu was incredibly popular, featuring in stories, novels, comic strips, television, and movies for decades, but also drew condemnation for stereotyping and racism toward the Chinese and East Asians, in general.

Ward worked as a poet, songwriter, and a comedy sketch writer for music hall performers before becoming an author of weird fiction and assuming the name Sax Rohmer. His short story “The Mysterious Mummy” was published in Pearson's Weekly in 1903. The first Fu Manchu novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, appeared in installments starting in October 1912. An immediate success, it made Rohmer one of the world's highest paid authors during the 1920s and 1930s.

In the manner of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's frustration with Sherlock Holmes, Rohmer tired of Fu Manchu and attempted to end the series, only to be convinced by public demand to revive the villain. Rohmer authored other books, too, such as the supernatural horror novels The Green Eyes of Bast and Brood of the Witch Queen. His Romance of Sorcery, published in 1914, an exploration of occult history, was praised by Rohmer's friend Harry Houdini. However, all his other books and characters, like Moris Klaw, his occult detective, would inevitably be overshadowed by the great fame of Fu Manchu.

Klaw is a dream detective—he solves mysteries by dreaming. Klaw investigates both criminal and supernatural mysteries. His stories are narrated by Mr. Searles, who is fascinated by Klaw. Isis Klaw, the detective's stylish daughter, appears in almost all the Dream Detective stories, although not in “Case of the Veil of Isis.” Isis Klaw assists her father with his detecting, as does Searles.

Moris Klaw stars in ten stories, which first ran in New Monthly Magazine, beginning in 1913. “Case of the Veil of Isis,” the last of the stories, was first published in the January 1914 issue. The stories were later collected and published in the 1920 compilation The Dream Detective: Being Some Account of the Methods of Moris Klaw.

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