Books in Order: The Ultimate Guide to Sax Rohmer's Novels

Behind Sax Rohmer was Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883–1959), born to a working-class family in Birmingham, England, who wrote poetry, songs, and music-hall comedy sketches before turning novelist. His actual first book, Pause!, was published anonymously in 1910 and remains out of print.

The Sax Rohmer name debuted properly in 1913 with The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu. This guide runs all fourteen Fu Manchu novels in the order they were published, spanning an extraordinary sixty years through 1973's The Wrath of Fu-Manchu.