UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks
Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices
Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!
Dope
Sax Rohmer
How does All You Can Books work?
All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.
"Try one of these, Margaret," he said. "They are great, and will quite drown the unpleasant odor of which you complain."
Whereupon the observant Seton saw a quick change take place in the girl's expression. She had the same clear coloring as her cousin, and now this freshness deserted her cheeks, and her pretty face became quite pale. She was staring at the brown packet. "Where did you get them?" she asked quietly.
A smile faded from Gray's lips. Those five words had translated him in spirit to that green-draped room in which Sir Lucien Pyne was lying dead. He glanced at Seton in the appealing way which sometimes made him appear so boyish.
"Er—from Pyne," he replied. "I must tell you, Margaret—"
"Sir Lucien Pyne?" she interrupted.
"Yes."
"Not from Rita Irvin?"
Quentin Gray started upright in his chair.
"No! But why do you. . . Read More
Try now for FREE!
"Love your service - thanks so much for what you do!"
- Customer Cathryn Mazer
"I did not realize that you would have so many audio books I would enjoy"
- Customer Sharon Morrison
"For all my fellow Audio Book & E-Book regulars:
This is about as close to nirvana as I have found!"
- Twitter post from @bobbyekat
Community Reviews
Rohmer's account of the girls descent into drug addiction that makes up the books second section is surprisingly truthful for the times and for Rohmer. However the book in it's last half is more typical of Rohmer as the police chase down yet another villainous Chinaman, although Rohmer has to gain a
1910 novel of British upper class, opium dens and murder. (This author wrote all the Dr. Fu Manchu books.) Fun froth.
One of a handful of books from this time I was lead to via reading Kenneth Grant (Mostly "The Ninth Arch" and "Against the Light" I'm pretty sure.)
I really enjoy aspects of suspense/mystery/supernatural books from this period. Unfortunately, they all have various shades of racism to them..(The Wors
A better read than the Fu Manchu series in that this story was considerably more plausible. The beautiful people turn out to be not so beautiful after all. I would say that this could apply to today, but there isn't even an attempt to conceal anything now.
cons: Most overused word: Savagely. And a g
From a literary point of view, this is most certainly no master piece. It's a sensationalist "mystery", not very well executed, and full of the absolutely worst kinds of stereotypical and xenophobic character depictions (remember, this IS a book by Sax Rohmer). But as a source on the contemporary vi
There are lots of things wrong with this story, but there is a fun bit of mystery to be had in the end.
It's set in London, roughly a century ago. The main characters are society types who are mixed up with drugs and a fierce cop who is trying to get to the bottom of the matter.