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The Flaming Jewel

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First published: 1922
Pages: 254

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01 - Eve
35:35
02 - The Ruling Passion
31:46
03 - On Star Peak
26:43
04 - A Private War
26:03
05 - Drowned Valley
24:25
06 - The Jewel Aflame
33:44
07 - Clinch’s Dump
31:38
08 - Cup and Lip
32:31
09 - The Forest and Mr. Sard
39:03
10 - The Twilight of Mike
33:27
11 - The Place of Pines
30:48
12 - Her Highness Intervenes
27:03

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Three parties want the same stone, and none of them has a clean claim to it. The gem was taken from the Grand Duchess Theodorica of Esthonia by the international thief José Quintana, and taken from Quintana in Paris during the war by an American soldier, Mike Clinch, who now keeps a disreputable hotel at Star Pond in the Adirondacks. Clinch is a smuggler and worse, but his one straight motive is his stepdaughter, Eve Strayer, whose future he means to buy with the jewel. Quintana comes to the North Woods to get it back, his gang behind him, while State Trooper Stormont and James Darragh, who works Clinch's place under the name Hal Smith, close in from other directions. Chambers wrote this in 1922, and he knew the country: the manhunt runs hard through dark timber.

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Robert W. Chambers

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) was an American artist turned prolific author of romance and adventure fiction. He is remembered almost entirely for the early horror tales of The King in Yellow, whose influence on supernatural and cosmic-horror writing far outlasted his popular novels.