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Kerry, Red. Red Kerry was created by “Sax Rohmer,” the pseudonym of Arthur Sarsfield Ward (Bimbâshi Barûk, Bazarada, Major Bernard de Treville, Fu Manchu (I), Paul Harley, Moris Klaw, Gaston Max, Captain O’Hagan, Abu Tabah), and appeared in three stories and serials and three novels and story collections from 1919 to 1925, beginning with Dope.

Daniel “Red” Kerry is the belligerent, imperious Chief Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard. He wears a bowler and carries a silver-mounted malacca cane.

“Red Kerry” wholly merited his sobriquet, for the man was as red as fire. His hair, which he wore cropped close as a pugilist’s, was brilliantly red, and so was his short, wiry, aggressive moustache. His complexion was red, and from beneath his straight red eyebrows he surveyed the world with a pair of unblinking, intolerant steel-blue eyes...high cheek bones and prominent maxillary muscles enhanced the truculence indicated by his chin.

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