Volume-One of the "Retro Misadventures" collection brings us two books from Maurice Huysman and Theo Hopcraft written as a homage to the early twentieth-century style of the late and great Sax Rohmer of "Fu Manchu" fame.

First up is Mr Huysman's "She Was Evil", as we are taken to 1920's Paris, where a redoubtable French detective and the English doctor who has been his lifelong friend take on a threat to world peace from a sadistic Chinese genius and his equally evil and perverted daughter... A sadistic daughter who exerts a mysterious and potent control over the proud Frenchman that might just see both men imprisoned in the interior of China itself as the chattels of two very different women with one major common denominator... Both enjoy absolute control over their men!

Mr Hopcraft's "Let Sleeping Evils Lie" follows as he weaves a tale that takes us from Egypt to London in the company of a purloined middle-eastern artefact and those unbelievers unwise enough to lay hands upon it... An artefact as priceless as it is holy its rightful owners will stop at nothing to re-acquire... Along with the complete enslavement of the souls belonging to those Westerners unwise enough to have taken it!

Believable fantasy fiction with a female-led slant in the retro-style of Sax Rohmer.