David Hodges's Blog: Murder On Audible - Posts Tagged "book-series"

I bought a new , well, rather a second-hand, book called 'Masters of Villainy' by Cay Van Ash and Elizabeth Sax Rohmer, the other day. It is a biography on the author, Sax Rohmer, who wrote the famous crime series featuring the evil character Dr Fu Manchu. It is a fascinating account of the writer's career over the mid nineteen-hundreds, with all its ups and downs, and it took me right back to my youth in the fifties when, seeing me bored, my mother introduced me to Rohmer and his villainous character haunting London's old Chinatown. I was immediately entranced and the books were my inspiration for wanting to be a professional writer. It took me more than forty years to fulfill that ambition, which was interrupted by thirty years service in the police, but eventually I got there after so many struggles and setbacks along the way that almost put me off. Now with a total of around 20 published novels behind me, including a 13 book crime series, set on the Somerset Levels, I look back with great fondness on those exciting days as an eleven year old child sharing in the adventures of Dr Fu Manchu, and it is my fervent wish as I approach my eightieth year, that other readers will share in the adventures of my heroine, Detective Sergeant Kate, who has become as real to me as Dr Fu Manchu apparently was to the late Sax Rohmer. Without a doubt, imagination is one of the greatest gifts any reader can possess. It can be a driver for life itself.
Happy reading...
David Hodges (Author of On The Levels Crime Series)