Word: bucoleon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TREASURE OF THE BUCOLEON- Arthur D. Howden-Smith-Brentano ($2.00). A cipher hidden in Elizabethan verse-secret stairs in an old English manor hall-a fabulous treasure secreted bv Byzantine emperors in the very belly of Constantinople-a gang of international cutthroats who are constantly sandbagging the legitimate treasure-seekers-gypsy brigands versus Turkish assassins - a spitfire gypsy lass equally ready with kiss or knife- these are some of the ingredients of as rattlingly energetic a yarn of adventure as any in some time...
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