FireTongue Sax Rohmer 9781151052438 Books
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General Books publication date 2009 Original publication date 1922 Original Publisher McKinley, Stone
FireTongue Sax Rohmer 9781151052438 Books
Just a good standard mystery. This is the second of two Paul Harley novels. Harley is a more traditional detective who uses gut feeling and intuition, as opposed to mystic powers. Not quite as ripping as "Bat Wing," Harley uncovers a Middle Eastern terrorist cabal. Harley gets the girl in the end, unlike most of Rohmer's heroes; is this why there was never a third novel?Product details
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FireTongue Sax Rohmer 9781151052438 Books Reviews
Ok ive read it a few times and it was just ok. What else can i say in nineteen words?
What more can I say than that it was free? Really, there isn't anything else to be said, except that it was, and the contents of the classic are what I expected.
I think this book's main problem is that it didn't know what it was trying to be. The first Paul Harley book, Bat-Wing (which I liked better) was a traditional mystery novel, in which someone is murdered and the detective has to figure out who did it. This book starts as a mystery novel, but it isn't--we very quickly learn who the killer is, and Rohmer gets away from the mystery aspect mid-novel, barely remembering to explain the motive in a paragraph in the last chapter. In many ways, it's more like the Fu Manchu book--Heroic English Detective vs. Sinister Eastern Villain. But the book spends too much of the opening chapters trying to establish itself as a traditional mystery to develop any momentum in that direction--the characters say again and again that they're all in terrible danger, but it never feels that way--there's no action until towards the end of the book, and when the hero does fall into the villain's hands (SPOILER), it turns out that his nefarious plan is to ask the hero to agree to stop bothering him. OK, he was going to kill him if he refused, but Fu Manchu tried to feed Nayland Smith alive to rats--compared to that, leaving the hero in a comfortable room while making vague threats isn't very menacing.
Conclusion too much in the Fu Manchu vein to be an effective whodunnit, because it's obvious who dunnit. Too much of a whodunnit to be an effective adventure novel in the Fu Manchu vein. Despite its short length, I was quite bored with it by the time it wrapped up.
(The elephant in the room that I have not addressed is that Sax Rohmer's novels are all incredibly racist, this one included. The reason I didn't address it is that there's not much I can say--either you're willing to look past it or you aren't. But if you somehow stumbled onto this product page without knowing that Sax Rohmer wrote racist novels, you can consider yourself warned)
Classic Sax.
This is a good story quick easy to read. It has the same character ( Paul Harley) as Bat wing.
I am a fan of this type of story, and Sax Rohmer does his work very, very well.
The intrigue, the characters, the mystery, the cliff-hangers, all put together make a great read!
Having just returned from India, (no, nothing mysterioso and creepy happened to me, just met a ton of really great people!) I liked the references to the hidden cult, the Indiana Jones type suspense, and of course, the characters were just perfect for this story.
Great visuals, kept me guessing, satisfactory ending.
More by Mr. Rohmer, coming up!
I have been a Sax Rohmer fan since I was young. Fire Tongue is as good a book as he has written.
It holds you interest and at times it is difficult to put down.
Just a good standard mystery. This is the second of two Paul Harley novels. Harley is a more traditional detective who uses gut feeling and intuition, as opposed to mystic powers. Not quite as ripping as "Bat Wing," Harley uncovers a Middle Eastern terrorist cabal. Harley gets the girl in the end, unlike most of Rohmer's heroes; is this why there was never a third novel?
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