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Deep in the Adirondack forests, a hidden prize draws outlaws into a deadly chase.
In The Flaming Jewel, Robert W. Chambers brings adventure and crime into the woods of northern New York. Outlaws, hidden treasure and a hard pursuit drive the story. The prize gives the chase its purpose, while the wilderness gives it a stage of thick forest, mountains, lakes and rivers.
The Adirondacks are more than a backdrop here. Chambers knows the region, and his eye for weather, trails and water gives the pursuit a concrete setting. This is old-fashioned adventure, with room to pause over a view or a character before the chase pulls you onward again.
What you’ll discover
- A prize worth pursuing Hidden treasure gives the adventure a clear lure and keeps the pursuit in focus.
- Forests that shape the story Enter an Adirondack landscape where woods and water matter as much as the chase.
- Outlaws in the wild Follow a crime story that leaves the streets behind for the forests of northern New York.
- An eye for place Notice the weather, trails and water through a storyteller familiar with the American Northeast.
- Adventure with breathing room Enjoy a narrative that makes space for scenery and character alongside the pursuit.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this if you like outlaw tales, treasure hunts, forest settings, secret identities, and a love story that grows between two young people on opposite sides of the law.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A letter sets Darragh on Quintana's trail
- Clinch's Dump is the outlaw heart of the woods
- At Owl Marsh, a trooper meets his match
- Clinch lives for one dream, and nearly kills for it
- Eve is carried up Star Peak and fights free
- A private war ends in a deadly bog
- Quintana strikes the Dump on a starry night
- The ruling passion and the price of a lady
- How the story is told, with Fate watching
Who’s who
- James DarraghA former army intelligence officer who poses as the holdup man Hal Smith to recover a young Grand Duchess's stolen jewels.
- Mike ClinchOwner of the lawless hotel at Star Pond, he lives to make his stepdaughter a lady and will kill to protect her.
- Eve StrayerClinch's educated, skilled and loyal stepdaughter, she longs for the city and falls for the trooper who once handcuffed her.
- Jack StormontA young State Trooper who respects the law, admires Eve and keeps Darragh's secret.
- Jose QuintanaThe cunning, cruel leader of an international gang, he crosses an ocean to recover the jewels Clinch took.
- Emanuel SardA fat, fearful diamond broker in New York who acts as Quintana's agent in America.
- Earl LeverettA cowardly trap thief at Clinch's Dump who dreams of a sudden fortune.
- TheodoricaThe young Grand Duchess of Esthonia, robbed of her jewels and living in exile, called Ricca by her friends.
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La joya flamígera
by Robert W. Chambers · 1922
A masked robber, a dishwasher with a secret and a stolen jewel meet at Mike Clinch's wild Adirondack Dump.
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What would you do if you held a thief's stolen gems and thieves were coming for them? Mike Clinch faces this in The Flaming Jewel, a wilderness adventure by Robert W. Chambers.
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A letter sets Darragh on Quintana's trail
The story opens with a letter from Esthonia. A countess writes to James Darragh in New York that Jose Quintana, head of a gang of international thieves, has robbed her young friend Ricca and fled. Darragh, once an officer in army intelligence, sets out to trace Quintana's agent, a diamond broker named Emanuel Sard.
Sard carries a strange letter from Rotterdam, a long list of gem names. Darragh follows him from Albany into the Adirondacks, fells a tree across a wood road, ties a handkerchief over his face and robs Sard of four thousand dollars and the letter. In an hour he solves the code. It names a man called Mike Clinch at Star Pond and a gem called the Flaming Jewel.
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What is The Flaming Jewel about?
It follows James Darragh, who poses as a holdup man at Mike Clinch's rough hotel in the Adirondacks to recover a Grand Duchess's stolen jewels before the thief who took them comes back to claim them.
Who is Jose Quintana in The Flaming Jewel?
Quintana is the leader of an international gang of thieves. He stole the Grand Duchess Theodorica's gems, lost them to a soldier in Paris, and travels to America to get them back.
What is the Flaming Jewel?
It is a rare, magnificent gem of a type called Erosite, the centerpiece of the jewels stolen from the young Grand Duchess of Esthonia. The whole chase centers on it.
The author
Robert W. Chambers
1865–1933 · American novelist and illustrator
Robert W. Chambers was an American writer whose 1895 collection The King in Yellow became a cornerstone of weird fiction, casting its influence over H.P. Lovecraft and generations of horror writers since. He was a successful popular novelist in his day, but this early work is what endures.
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