Van Ash, Cay
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1918-1994) UK academic and author long associated with Sax Rohmer, whose biography, Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer (1972), he wrote with Elizabeth Sax Rohmer. He is of sf interest for a Fu Manchu Sequel by Other Hands series comprising Ten Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Matches his Wits with the Diabolical Dr Fu Manchu (1984) and The Fires of Fu Manchu (1987); in both instalments the Yellow Peril element remains, though somewhat tamed. The first tale brings Sherlock Holmes out of retirement after Rohmer's character Nayland Smith has been, not very intelligently, abducted; the second volume fabulates World War One. [JC]
Cay Van Ash
born Sussex: 1918
died Paris: April 1994
works
series
Fu Manchu
- Ten Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Matches his Wits with the Diabolical Dr Fu Manchu (New York: Harper and Row, 1984) [Fu Manchu: hb/Peter Elwell]
- The Fires of Fu Manchu (New York: Harper and Row, 1987) [Fu Manchu: hb/Peter Thorpe]
nonfiction
- Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972) with Elizabeth Sax Rohmer [nonfiction: hb/Mike Vosburg]
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