{"product_id":"2940013649613","title":"The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A GENTLEMAN to see you, Doctor.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom across the common a clock sounded the half-hour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ten-thirty!\" I said.  \"A late visitor.  Show him up, if you please.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI pushed my writing aside and tilted the lamp-shade, as footsteps\u003cbr\u003esounded on the landing.  The next moment I had jumped to my feet, for a\u003cbr\u003etall, lean man, with his square-cut, clean-shaven face sun-baked to the\u003cbr\u003ehue of coffee, entered and extended both hands, with a cry:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Good old Petrie!  Didn't expect me, I'll swear!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was Nayland Smith--whom I had thought to be in Burma!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith,\" I said, and gripped his hands hard, \"this is a delightful\u003cbr\u003esurprise!  Whatever--however--\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Excuse me, Petrie!\" he broke in.  \"Don't put it down to the sun!\" And\u003cbr\u003ehe put out the lamp, plunging the room into darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was too surprised to speak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No doubt you will think me mad,\" he continued, and, dimly, I could see\u003cbr\u003ehim at the window, peering out into the road, \"but before you are many\u003cbr\u003ehours older you will know that I have good reason to be cautious.  Ah,\u003cbr\u003enothing suspicious!  Perhaps I am first this time.\"  And, stepping back\u003cbr\u003eto the writing-table he relighted the lamp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mysterious enough for you?\" he laughed, and glanced at my unfinished\u003cbr\u003eMS.  \"A story, eh?  From which I gather that the district is beastly\u003cbr\u003ehealthy--what, Petrie?  Well, I can put some material in your way that,\u003cbr\u003eif sheer uncanny mystery is a marketable commodity, ought to make you\u003cbr\u003eindependent of influenza and broken legs and shattered nerves and all\u003cbr\u003ethe rest.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI surveyed him doubtfully, but there was nothing in his appearance to\u003cbr\u003ejustify me in supposing him to suffer from delusions.  His eyes were\u003cbr\u003etoo bright, certainly, and a hardness now had crept over his face.  I\u003cbr\u003egot out the whisky and siphon, saying:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You have taken your leave early?\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158359884016,"sku":"2940013649613","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013649613_p0.jpg?v=1763583456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013649613","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}