# What book am I thinking of (Sax Rohmer?)

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**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-am-i-thinking-of-sax-rohmer/531117 "2010-03-03T14:15:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-am-i-thinking-of-sax-rohmer/531117/1 "2010-03-03T14:15:54Z")

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The past couple of days I have been trying to remember the title of a book I read. It was a mystery thriller set in the 1920s (approx.) and one of the main characters was a brilliant young woman doctor who had been educated abroad and then brought to London by a benefactor to practice some new and unconventional form of medicine. Her benefactor was some evil bad guy (she did not realize this), who built her clinic in London. I think she was an eye doctor. I think it was a Sax Rohmer book but I cannot figure out which one.

In the book was also a car crash, a hideout, trips to find a telephone (I guess not everyone had one)…

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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-am-i-thinking-of-sax-rohmer/531117/2 "2010-03-03T21:09:02Z")

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I finally figured it out – it was “The Radium Terrors” by Albert Dorrington.