The Beetle is about about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marshs novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stokers Dracula, George du Mauriers Trilby, and Sax Rohmers Fu Manchu novels.
The Beetle is about about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marshs novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stokers Dracula, George du Mauriers Trilby, and Sax Rohmers Fu Manchu novels.