Editing Fu Manchu (section)

=== Kâramanèh ===
{{quote box|width=30%|align=right|quote=Many there are, I doubt not, who will regard the Eastern girl with horror. I ask their forgiveness in that I regarded her quite differently. No man having seen her could have condemned her unheard. Many, having looked into her lovely eyes, had they found there what I found, must have forgiven her almost any crime.|source=—''The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu''}}

Prominent among Dr Fu Manchu's agents is the "seductively lovely" Kâramanèh. Her real name is unknown. She was sold to the ''Si-Fan'' by [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] [[Slavery in Africa|slave traders]] while she was still a child. Kâramanèh falls in love with Dr Petrie, the narrator of the first three books in the series, and rescues Petrie and Nayland Smith many times. Eventually the couple are united and she wins her freedom. They marry and have a daughter, Fleurette, who figures in two later novels, ''Fu Manchu's Bride'' (1933) and its sequel, ''The Trail of Fu Manchu'' (1934). [[Lin Carter]] later created a son for Dr Petrie and Kâramanèh.