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by Robert William Chambers

Author:	Robert William Chambers
Subcategory:	Literary
Language:	English
Publisher:	Kessinger Publishing, LLC (September 10, 2010)
Pages:	278 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.7
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To my friend R. T. Haines-Halsey who unreservedly believes everything Iwrite.

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842–1913). His parents met when Caroline was twelve years old and William P. was interning with her father, Joseph Boughton, a prominent corporate lawyer.

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Chambers Robert W. Robert William The Flaming Jewel. All ciphers are solved by similar methods, unless the key is contained in a code book known only to sender and receiver. Within an hour Darragh had it pencilled out

Chambers, Robert William. Chambers Robert William. Public Domain, электронная книга.

Chambers, Robert William. In the Quarter (1895), The Red Republic (1896), Lorraine, The Cambric Mask, The Maids of Paradise (1903), A Young Man in a Hurry (1906), The Fighting Chance (1907), etc. Источник: Chambers, Robert William. Другие книги схожей тематики: Автор.

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The Flaming Jewel book. Set on the formula of Robert W. Chamber stories, it is a very exciting story of detective work, Action, Adventure, loss and found Romance. A beautiful story indeed.

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Domarivip

Fast moving, serial style, post WW1 adventure. Interesting characters, some unusual twists and unusual settings. I enjoyed this very much. For fans of John Buchan, Valentine Williams and such, I would think.

Weetont

I read this book as part of my personal project of reading books from my paternal grandfather's library.

Robert W. Chambers was a prolific and successful fantastic fiction writer who worked between 1894 and his death in 1933. He is most likely best known for his early horror/weird short fiction, but he wrote scores of books in a wide variety of genres.

The Flaming Jewel (1922) is a mystery/thriller with a G-Man detective angle. It pits an international gang of jewel thieves against a group of American rum-running poachers. It takes a loyal ex-army man-- Jim Darragh-- who has to sort the whole mess out. At stake for him are some famous and elusive jewels that once belonged to Her Serene Highness Theodorica, Grand Duchess of Esthonia. Darragh has a personal interest in the happiness of Theodorica and means to retrieve her treasure-- the only thing left of her fortune after the anguish of war.

Compared to other similar books from the same period, The Flaming Jewel stood out for its relative length and complexity. Although the writing is uneven (at the rate which Chambers wrote, it nearly had to be uneven) there are some interesting plot twists and turns. (Those plot twists include one of the most original gruesome deaths for a villain that I have ever encountered.) He also has some nice thematic touches going on-- the post-WWI malaise, a US infected by the consequences of war, the contrast between imported and domestic villainy.

It's nice to see that several companies are bringing Chambers back into print. These may be largely interesting as a product of their time, but seem to me still worth the effort to read. (I might have really given it three stars, but it seems to me worth four for the historic value.)

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