Sax Rohmer 
The Sins of Severac Bablon 

The Sins of Severac Bablon is a thrilling crime novel from the author who would go on to pen the beloved Fu Manchu series. In this story, criminal mastermind Severac Bablon sets out to balance the scales of social justice by extorting a series of affluent victims and forcing them to donate vast sums of money to a variety of charitable causes.