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THE HOUSE OF GOLD:
A James Geraldi Trio by Max Brand

Coming in November

James Geraldi, one of Max Brand's most intriguing characters, has been dubbed the "Frigate Bird" because of his penchant for stealing from thieves. His saga continues in this trio of adventures.

The Golden Horus is a physical monument to the Egyptian god fashioned in gold with an inlay of four perfect emeralds and a large, flawless, yellow diamond. Smuggled to America by archeologist Robert Ingall, Geraldi has finally succeeded in stealing this treasure back from a group of international jewel thieves and returns it to Mary Ingall, the deceased archeologist's daughter, only for Geraldi himself now to have become the focus of the thieves who surround Mary Ingall's house, intent on killing him.

Later the thief of thieves is approached by two men, one of whom, Darcy, sought unsuccessfully to break into the ancient safe in the basement of the Naylor Ranch, a giant spread manned by aged Pike Naylor and his sons. Darcy was caught with the loot he had stolen. Instead of killing him, the Naylors bound him to a tree and nailed his hands to the tree's trunk.

Now, Darcy and his associate, a man named Cullen who was formerly an enemy of Geraldi's, persuade Geraldi to join them in a new effort to crack the Naylors' safe. Geraldi agrees, for the thrill of it rather than just for the money, but it turns out to be a caper that proves to be much more than he had ever bargained for.