Author: CARLING, John R. Title: The Viking's Skull.
Description: Boston, Little Brown 1904. Octavo publisher's illustrated green cloth printed in colours; four plates. An excellent, bright copy. ¶ First edition. "An ingeniously constructed plot, which tells how Idris Marville, true Earl of Ormsby recovered a treasure hidden by one of his progenitors - a Viking of the Ninth Century - and how he cleared the memory of his father, who had been wrongfully convicted of murder" (publisher's advertisement). To this we need only add "Yet even amidst her fear it did not escape her notice that the hand which held the weapon was small, white, and decorated with a diamond ring" (p33). Sometimes a black silk vizard is just not disguise enough.
Keywords: literature fiction c20th America thrillers fantasy mystery
Price: AUD 100.00 = appr. US$ 69.19 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8629