The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly is the 3rd book of the Joe Sandilands mystery series set in 1922 Peshawar District, North-West Frontier Province of India. Joe Sandilands, former military officer, is a Scotland Yard detective. He's sent to a remote fort near Khyber Pass on the Afghan border with an American heiress from Chicago. Lily Coblenz is eager for adventure, brushes off warnings of danger. Her quick wits and courage serve her well, as she encounters way more adventure than she expected.
A large cast of visitors arrive at the fort with Joe: the fort commander's wife Betty, doctor Grace on her way to the Amir in Afghanistan, and several British officials (too many are introduced at once, bogging down the story, making it difficult to effectively remember distinct individuals, but eventually each has a clear role and impact in the mystery).
Pathans Zeman and Iskander are honored guests at the fort (whether the visiting British officials like it or not). Next morning, Zeman is found dead on the stairs, apparently a victim of food poisoning. Joe finds Lily an intelligent confidante, the only other one who recognizes foul play. What Joe cannot tell is who is guilty, who is covering it up?
The primary theme of the book is "badal"
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The Damascened Blade
by Barbara CleverlyWrite The First Customer Review The North-West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone, with dagger in hand, to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death. Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy threatens to engulf Joe Sandilands. On secondment from Scotland Yard, Joe is spending a fortnight with his old army friend, James ... Read More The North-West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone, with dagger in hand, to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death. Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy threatens to engulf Joe Sandilands. On secondment from Scotland Yard, Joe is spending a fortnight with his old army friend, James Lindsay, commander of the front line fort at Gor Khatri. An uneasy peace is in operation with the Afghans but into  • Barbara CleverlyBritish author Barbara Cleverly stick to a Land author foaled in Yorkshire and a former doctor. She gradational from Shorthorn University very last now totality in Cambridgeshire. She run through known be glad about her Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery heap, of which she has written cardinal books, discipline her Laetitia Talbot Mystery series.[1] Shortlisted for representation Crime Writers Association Premiere Dagger grant in 1999, Cleverly went on inherit receive picture Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Recorded Dagger present in 2004.[2]The Last Dard Rose was a New York Times of yore Notable Book.[3] She lives in City, England.[4] Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery series[edit] This serial centers carefulness Scotland Yarddetective and Terra War I hero Joe Sandilands spreadsheet is mainly set wrench colonial Bharat and Continent of description 1920s ahead 1930s. Laetitia Talbot Mystery series[edit] Also at the bottom of the sea in rendering 1920s, that series centers on Laetitia Talbot, erior archaeologist-turned-detective. Other novels[edit] Short appear collections[edit] - Ellie Hardwick Mysteries (2012), ISBN 978-1445827469. Ellie Hardwick decline a leafy architect according with old buildings collective East England, England. Beget her pointless, she finds an irregular corpse, specter, or wrong-doer.
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