A Transaction In Diamonds

Description

by Talbot Mundy

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.

With an introduction by Brian Taves (Talbot Mundy—Philosopher of Adventure).

Edited by Gene Christie.

Cover art by Tom Roberts

The Talbot Mundy Library, volume 1.

Stories include:

• 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
• An Offer of Two to One
• Kitty and Cupid
• The Blooding of the Ninth Queen’s Own

With an appendix by Tom Roberts discussing Mundy’s payment rates for his early stories.