*Crime, Spies and Sleaze: Sax Rohmer is undoubtedly best remembered as the creator of the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, but he also created an equally villainous female equivalent in the shape of Sumuru. Quoting from the back cover of ‘The Slaves of Sumuru’ (one of the three books in this update): ‘Sumuru is a woman of eternal beauty and surpassing evil, a woman who uses all her voluptuous charms to enslave men and change them into cringing, obidient shadows willing to kill and betray at one whispered word from her…’ I think that says it all! Other titles in this update: ‘The Sins Of Sumuru’ and ‘Sinister Madonna’, three of the five books featuring this arch-villainess, all UK editions from the early 1960s.