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Fire tongue

Some of Paul Harley's most interesting cases were brought to his notice in an almost accidental way. Although he closed his office in Chancery Lane sharply at the hour of six, the hour of six by no means marked the end of his business day. His work was practically ceaseless. But even in times of leisure, at the club or theatre, fate would sometimes cast in his path the first slender thread which was ultimately to lead him into some unsuspected labyrinth, perhaps in the underworld of London, perhaps in a city of the Far East.

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  • "Some of Paul Harley's most interesting cases were brought to his notice in an almost accidental way. Although he closed his office in Chancery Lane sharply at the hour of six, the hour of six by no means marked the end of his business day. His work was practically ceaseless. But even in times of leisure, at the club or theatre, fate would sometimes cast in his path the first slender thread which was ultimately to lead him into some unsuspected labyrinth, perhaps in the underworld of London, perhaps in a city of the Far East."@en
  • "Detective Paul Harley investigates cases that go beyond your standard-issue crimes and misdemeanors -- his inquiries often veer into the realm of the supernatural. In the novel Fire-Tongue, Harley finds himself up against a shadowy secret society that will stop at nothing to achieve world domination. Will he be able to thwart their nefarious plot before it's too late?"@en
  • "Rohmer decided to describe a seemingly impossible murder and then solve it as he continued to write. By the end of the third chapter, he realized he had left no room for a solution and gave up. Meanwhile his agent had sold the story to Collier's for serialization and the first chapter had already been printed. Sax travelled to New York and holed up in a hotel to try and find a solution. He kept writing but could think of no way out. Unbelievably, he was visited by Harry Houdini who had underlined one sentence and told Rohmer how to explain the murder. The all important sentence is in chapter 3."@en
  • "Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. This is one of his novels."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "American fiction"@en
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Fire tongue"@en
  • "Eldtunga"
  • "Eldtunga"@sv
  • "Fire-tongue"@en
  • "Fire-tongue"
  • "Fire-Tongue"
  • "Fire-Tongue"@en

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