Description
Volume 1 of the Talbot Mundy Library from Black Dog Books
A Transaction in Diamonds assembles all of Talbot Mundy’s stories and articles published during 1911, his first year as a professional writer. Included are his first published story, as well as his first British military tale, “The Phantom Battery,” along with twelve other classic works of fiction and non-fiction.
CONTENTS
- Introduction by Brian Taves
- A Transaction In Diamonds
- Pig Sticking in India
- The Lady and the Lord
- Single-Handed Yachting
- Kitty Burns Her Fingers
- Vengeance Is Kitty’s
- The Phantom Battery
- Jansen and Jansen—Twins
- Cornelia’s Englishman
- Sentence of Death
- The Fire-Cop
- Am Offer of Two to One
- Kitty and Cupid
- The Blooding of the Ninth Queen’s Own
- Appendix by Tom Roberts
With an introduction by Brian Taves, author of Talbot Mundy: Philosopher of Adventure.
Cover art by Tom Roberts.
Trade paperback / 170 pages
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