ON THE TRAIL OF THE LOST TREASURE OF THE INCAS – WITH EVERY FORTUNE HUNTER IN SOUTH AMERICA CLOSING IN! Al Colby should never have agreed to smuggle the package from Chile to Peru. Now one man’s dead, two beautiful women have betrayed him, and a couple of gunmen are hot on his trail. All because...
If it had changed while I was still laid up I could have missed getting the gaff into him. But it didn’t, and I did. I’d sent word to the bonne at the Villa Parfumée that I’d been called away on business, then rented a room in Cannes near the office of the dentist who was ...
‘Catch a sleep while you can, Captain,’ he said. ‘And if you want to get any oiling done before morning, now’s your chance. Just stay close to the engine-room.’ ‘There are other things besides the motors that need attention,’ Blake said. ‘I’ve got to make an inspection of the ship.’ The sailor sh...
There were six of them, five ewes and a bellwether. The ewes were all in milk, and their swollen udders made them reluctant to move as long as grass was within cropping range. For two days I whacked them along from dawn to dark, driving them until their udders were no longer swollen but thin and ...