Sax Rohmer

Sax Rohmer wrote accounts of Fu Manchu's life. (PROSE: The Book of the War, The Beasthouse)

Rohmer's story The Devil Doctor, released in 1914 and 1915, pitted Fu Manchu against Sir Denis Nayland Smith. Smith stole Manchu's white peacock, which had been a gift from a mysterious figure from China. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Fu Manchu's son, head of the White Peacock Arms Company, deemed Rohmer's accounts as "generally absurd". According to Rohmer's telling, the criminal mastermind "dressed in traditional Oriental robes and kept a marmoset as a familiar"; Fu Manchu's son remarked that the latter fact might have had some truth to it. (PROSE: The Beasthouse)