There are rumors of an uprising. Our young hero Athelston King of the India Secret Service, is dispatched to the Khyber Pass to prevent what threatens to become a Holy War. Armed only with quick wit, courage and the knowledge of men, King must travel...
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultu...
British agent Athelstan King and American Greg Ramsden match wits with a Hindu mahatma and Yasmini, a mysterious princess, as King and Ramsden try to block a plot to free India from British rule. Their pursuit of the conspiracy takes them into underg...
Cottswold Ommony has guts and influence. He's in the Secret Service, and heading for McGregor's office. No one in India knows what Ommony will do next. And it's a good thing. Because there are evils on the land -- evils like OM, the Secret of the Abh...
THE MINSTREL'S CHALLENGE RANG OUT to defeated men to rally to a new prince TROS OF SAMOTHRACE sea captain without equal, loved of Thor and Odin, brave and cunning, Tros who stood before them, Tros who had claimed the fair-haired Helma, daughter...
THE KEEPERS OF THE MYSTERIES OF SAMOTHRACE despatched my father in his purple-sailed ship to many lands, of which Gaul was one, for purposes which only druids understand. I was second in command of that ship. We met with the Gauls; we counselled the...
"DRAW NEAR, AND I WILL WHISPER THE WORD," the Vestal commanded TROS OF SAMOTHRACE "that will be sufficient proof to Caesar that you come from me. He will believe your lips. But if you use it falsely, then I know of no death and no curse that were n...
THE HIGH PRIEST SIGNALLED WILDLY. He ordered the olive branch hauled down from the galley's masthead. Then the signal symbols clanged, and the last of the high priest's followers jumped for it. Six of them fell into the sea, as the gangplank came ...
Sailor, dreamer, warrior, thinker --superhero-- T ROS is the great creation of the greatest of all adventure-fantasy writers, TALBOT MUNDY. Mighty TROS' swashbuckling boldness is combined with insights into such untold mysteries as those of the legen...
"EGYPT LIES LIKE A NAKED WOMAN, READY FOR ROME TO VIOLATE," the woman called Royal Egypt confessed to Tros of Samothrace. With his hand on his sword hilt Tros bowed his head as if gathering force from an unseen realm of inspiration, then groped in...
Shall I sin, to satisfy your itch for what you have no right to?There was no moon yet. The ponderous temple wall loomed behindHawkes, a huge tree breathing near him, full of the restlessnessof parakeets that made the silence audible and darkness visi...
A highly exciting adventure story featuring James Schuyler Grim, better known as Jimgrim. Jimgrim is an American secret service agent employed by the British and stationed in Jerusalem. With him are his faithful sikh shadow, Narayan Singh, as well as...
Jimgrim and the Woman Ayesha is a short novel by Talbot Mundy (William Lancaster Gribbon) featuring his great hero James Schuyler Grim, better known as Jimgrim. Jimgrim is an American secret service agent employed by the British and stationed in the ...
Jimgrim and a Secret Society originally appeared in the classic pulp magazine Adventure, in the August 10, 1922 issue. It is part of Mundy's series featuring James Schuyler Grimm, better known as Jimgrim, a British agent. In this volume, he resig...
Adventures in Araby -- what is now Palestine and Israel and Jordan and Saudi Arabia and Iraq -- with Jimgrim -- Major James Schuyler Grim -- and assorted adventurers.
You wouldn't find a tougher, less easily stampeded gang in Asia Minor than the ...
SO LONG as its colors remain, and there is one man left to carry them, a regiment will continue the same old traditions behind it and the same atmosphere surrounding it that made brave men of its forebears. So, although the colors are not exactly the...
A Chullunder Ghose Story by Talbot MundyJohn Duncannon wakes in a strange room somewhere in India running a high fever. He does not know how he got there, or what has happened to him. Nor does he yet grasp the fact that he is a small piece of a great...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (1879-1940) was an English writer who wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. His most famous book is King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure (1916), which is set in India under British Occupatio...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
Seen against the background of purple and dark-green gloom, with crimson torchlight flaring on the quiet water and the moon descending behind trees beyond them, they were mystically beautiful -- seemed not to belong to earth, anymore than the pan-...
Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English writer who often wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. At age 19 he left London to travel to India and parts of the Near and Far East. Most of Mundy's novels are set in India under British Occupation in...
"The best adventure writer of the 20th century!" -- SF Site
When Mundy published the short novel The Gray Mahatma (retitled Caves of Terror in book form) in the Nov. 10, 1922 issue of Adventure, it was the first time the supernatural and mystical...
Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English writer who often wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. At age 19 he left London to travel to India and parts of the Near and Far East. Most of Mundy's novels are set in India under British Occupation in...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
"Jimgrim" was originally serialized in "Adventure" magazine as "King of the World" in seven installments, from November 15, 1930 through February 15, 1931. It is the final installment in the Jimgrim saga -- though not the last book written....
Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English writer who often wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. At age 19 he left London to travel to India and parts of the Near and Far East. Most of Mundy's novels are set in India under British Occupation in...
El Kudz, as Arabs call Jerusalem, is, from a certain distance, as they also call it, shellabi kabir. Extremely beautiful. Beautiful upon a mountain. El Kudz means The City, and in a certain sense it is that, to unnumbered millions of people. Ludic...
Major James Grim -- Jimgrim to his friends -- faced many challenges during his posting to Arabia, but one of the greatest involved two tons of stolen TNT. Jimgrim is off to Ludd to investigate, charged with recovering the explosives, clearing the man...
"""Jimgrim and the Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil"" originally appeared in the February 20th, 1922 issue of Adventure magazine. This edition has been retypeset from the original magazine pages.
""Mundy's forte wasn't simply good research; Mundy wa...
Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English writer who often wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. At age 19 he left London to travel to India and parts of the Near and Far East. Most of Mundy's novels are set in India under British Occupation in...
The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb is a 'Jeff Ramsden' story by Talbot Mundy, an unjustly neglected Anglo-American adventure writer of the early twentieth century. In this exciting instalment, the much-traveled Ramsden meets an old friend, the feisty and be...
A fictional secret society founded by the Mauryan Emperor Asoka around 270 BC is entrusted with preserving knowledge that would be dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. The nine unknown men are entrusted with guarding nine books of s...
". . . the ingenuity of the plot, which leads up to a hair-raising finish . . . Yasmini, more a spirit personified than a person, an incarnation, with her songs and dances and pet cobras, of the charm and sorcery and fascination of the East . . . ...