The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer

The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu’, published in 1913, is the first novel in writer Sax Rohmer’s ‘Dr. Fu Manchu series’. It collates various short stories published in the year preceding its first publication.
‘”A GENTLEMAN to see you, Doctor.”
From across the common a clock sounded the half-hour.
“Ten-thirty!” I said. “A late visitor. Show him up, if you please.”
I pushed my writing aside and tilted the lamp-shade, as footsteps sounded on the landing. The next moment I had jumped to my feet, for a tall, lean man, with his square-cut, clean-shaven face sun-baked to the hue of coffee, entered and extended both hands, with a cry:
“Good old Petrie! Didn’t expect me, I’ll swear!”
It was Nayland Smith—whom I had thought to be in Burma!’ -an excerpt