Retro Evils. Retro Evils, #1

The first volume in the "Retro Evils" collection contains three female-led books; each written in the classic crime, mystery, and adventure style of the fiction belonging to the first half of the 20th Century. Read on, as an innocent and unwitting traveller, returning via boat from Egypt to Britain and his Knightsbridge homes, witnesses a dockside atrocity at Port Said and finds himself embroiled in the theft of an Eastern relic with mystical powers.
Mystical powers promising lasting consequences to those Westerners foolish enough to defile it. An intrepid French Commissioner, recently returned from the East, and his equally fearless and resolute doctor friend, attempt to rid the world of a genius Chinese villain with dreams of world domination and his equally warped daughter. A daughter the Commissioner knows far more intimately than he cares to either admit or remember. Finally, we visit the late-fifties to meet an academically gifted undergrad; a learned ex-cop; and a Japanese heiress.
Each of whom have one thing in common: a recently unearthed and much in demand tome called the "Book of Witches". A book with an undeciphered incantation ensuring  tyranny, suppression, and a loss of autonomy. That loss being for ALL men if it is translated and invoked. Volume-One contains: "Let Sleeping Evils Lie" by Theo Hopcraft; "She Was Evil" from Maurice Huysman; and Rafael Menton's "The Dark Depths". Believable female-led fantasy fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.