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...British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet of teak and rosewood and gold. Sir Stafford would find ample and luxurious space for meditation in one of its 54 bedrooms...
Blood on the Moon. Born in Surabaya, Hein ter Poorten, like most other Dutch colonials, had seen blood on the moon over the Java Sea since he was a slim stripling. It was part of life in the underarmed, fabulously rich, strangely strategic Indies, lying like a rich, jewel-encrusted girdle athwart the sea traffic of half the world. Some day the hungry Jap would snatch at that girdle to pilfer its jewels. If he succeeded, that half of the world...
...scramble for Pearl Harbor songs Band Leader Sammy Kaye launched Remember Pearl Harbor. Mills Music. Inc. got out the following: WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR Brightest jewel of the blue southern sea, Our lips will be saying 'Pearl Harbor On each bead of our Rosary; The angels will smile on Pearl Harbor Till the last leaf will fall from the tree, WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR Our Harbor of memory...
When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple...
...Falcon," which completes the bill, is a better - than-average murder mystery, complete with two corpses, jewel thieves, and dialogue clever enough to clear away those navy blues...