# The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu — Character guide

> Key figures in The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer.

- [Nayland Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/nayland_smith.md): Smith operates on nerve and instinct, dragging his friend Dr. Petrie into locked hotel rooms and moonlit graveyards on the strength of a warning and a hunch. His authority is real but unofficial, and his obsession with F
- [Dr. Fu-Manchu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/dr_fu_manchu.md): Fu-Manchu moves through England like an octopus whose tentacles are dacoity, thuggee, and poisons unknown to the British Pharmacopoeia. He kills without haste and spares without sentiment, treating his hunters with a pit
- [Dr. Petrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/dr_petrie.md): Petrie is the reader's eyes: skeptical, humane, and repeatedly drawn into graveyards and locked rooms by a friend he cannot refuse. His professional zeal carries him through exhumations and midnight injections, though hi
- [Inspector Weymouth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/inspector_weymouth.md): Weymouth supplies the official muscle that Smith's credentials alone cannot, surrounding cottages and taking prisoners when the chase demands it. He is brave in the ordinary way, which is precisely what makes him a targe
- [Karamanèh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/karamaneh.md): Karamanèh moves through Fu-Manchu's household with the silence of the drugged and the desperation of the trapped, her perfume and her fear equally memorable. Her brother Aziz lies in a deathlike trance that only the Chin
- [Sir Lionel Barton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/sir_lionel_barton.md): Barton belongs to the class of men whose disappearance would shake the Empire, which is exactly why Fu-Manchu marks him. His household becomes a stage for drugged train compartments, attempted burglaries, and the slow cr
- [Frank Norris West](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/frank_norris_west.md): West moves through the investigation as an outsider with a reporter's instinct for the sensational, tagging along where Smith and Petrie probe the edges of Fu-Manchu's web. His professional hunger for a scoop sits uneasi
- [Mr. Eltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/mr_eltham.md): The Rev. J. D. Eltham presides over Redmoat, a country rectory whose rural peace has been poisoned by a series of eerie intrusions and a drugging on the train home from London with his daughter Greba. Sensitive and nervo
- [Sir Crichton Davey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/sir_crichton_davey.md): Deceased diplomat whose death is linked to Fu-Manchu's activities.
- [Graham Guthrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/graham_guthrie.md): Colonial administrator who becomes a victim of Fu-Manchu.
- [Miss Eltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/miss_eltham.md): Returning from London with her father, Greba is drugged, wakes to a menacing figure leaning over her, and faints before she can scream, leaving only fragments of memory that Smith must piece together. Her account is the 
- [Vernon Denby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/vernon_denby.md): Young man ensnared by Fu-Manchu's criminal network.
- [Mr. Cadby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/mr_cadby.md): British official who falls prey to Fu-Manchu's schemes.
- [Lord Southery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/lord_southery.md): Nobleman involved in the investigation of Fu-Manchu.
- [Mr. Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/mr_henderson.md): Colleague of Smith's who provides assistance.
- [Kwee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/kwee.md): Fu-Manchu's loyal and deadly servant.
- [Strozza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/strozza.md): Italian sculptor working for Fu-Manchu.
- [Aziz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/aziz.md): Servant loyal to Karamanèh.
- [Professor Jenner Monde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/professor_jenner_monde.md): Scientist whose research is coveted by Fu-Manchu.
- [Mr. Burboyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_insidious_dr_fu_manchu_se/characters/mr_burboyne.md): Victim of one of Fu-Manchu's plots.

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