THE FIRST FU-MANCHU NOVEL Commissioner Nayland Smith returns to London from Burma, telling his old friend and colleague, Doctor Petrie, of a master criminal who has been active in Burma... ...the criminal is Doctor Fu-Manchu, a great scientist and the most dangerous criminal mind the world has ever known... ...and Fu-Manchu has come to London. His purpose is unknown but very soon the greatest scientists in Europe begin to disappear... Originally published in the United States with the title The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu.