Fu Manchu was a supervillain who was introduced in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer that ran for about forty years. He became both an archetype but was also a racist stereotype ...

Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon ...

From the novels we can work out Fu Manchu must have studied in Edinburgh in the early 1870s. So what do historical records teach us about his time there? Back then, Conan Doyle was registered at ...