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Readers who love fast spy adventures, rooftop chases and fire-escape rescues will enjoy this book. So will anyone drawn to cursed jewels, brave heroines and a warm love story.
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What would you do if a stranger appeared at your kitchen window, hungry, bruised and begging for bread? Kitty Conover, a newspaper woman in New York, hands him eggs, bacon and milk. Within hours she is carrying a wounded man across a fire escape in the rain.
The Drums of Jeopardy is a spy thriller by Harold MacGrath, set in the first spring after the Great War. A young man has crossed half the world with a pouch of jewels at his throat, and an anarchist named Boris Karlov has trailed him every mile.
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- 1A fugitive steps off the train into fogFree
- 2A fist fight on a river steamer
- 3Gregor's empty rooms and a golden window
- 4Kitty, Cutty, and a story about green stones
- 5A rescue across the fire escape
- 6Karlov and the captive fiddler
- 7A trap is set, and Kitty walks into it
- 8Green stones that bring out greed
- 9Love, age, and an offer of marriage
- 10How the story is told, and why it holds
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A fugitive steps off the train into fog
The story opens at half past three on a cold March morning in Albany. A night train drops a few passengers into a fog so thick that the station lamps look like pale stars. One of them is a man in a long black coat and a low derby, carrying a scarred English kitbag.
He believes the fog has finally hidden him. But a short, thickset shadow slips down the platform behind him.
He signs the hotel register as John Hawksley of London. In his room he opens a brown tobacco pouch. Inside, wrapped in cotton wool, lie jewels of every color, and two emeralds the size of half dollars.
The squat man has taken the next room. Hawksley sets chairs against the door and the window and lies down in the dark. Then he hears a chair fall and turns on the light. A chase begins when a man thinks he has finally escaped.
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About 6 h to read.Questions about I tamburi del pericolo
What is The Drums of Jeopardy about?
A fugitive crosses the world with a pouch of jewels and lands in New York, where a newspaper woman named Kitty Conover shelters him. A war correspondent who is also a secret agent helps, while an anarchist hunts them all.
What are the drums of jeopardy?
They are two matching emeralds set as drumheads in carved ivory drummers. Cutty describes them as stones with a history of loot and murder, said to bring misfortune. The name draws on that old superstition about cursed gems.
Who is Cutty in the book?
Cutty is a gray-haired war correspondent and Kitty's godfather. He collects drums and polished green stones, speaks many languages, and secretly works for the American government, watching for dangerous foreign agitators in the months after the Great War.
When was The Drums of Jeopardy written, and is it a true story?
Harold MacGrath wrote it in the early twentieth century, and it is fiction. The setting is New York in the first spring of peace after the Great War, with real fears about revolution shaping the plot.
Is The Drums of Jeopardy easy to read?
It has short chapters, quick dialogue and a lively narrator who cracks jokes along the way. Each chapter ends with a hook, so the chase and the love story move along clearly and keep you turning pages.
Cite this edition
MacGrath, Harold. The Drums of Jeopardy. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-drums-of-jeopardy.
MacGrath, H. (2026). The drums of jeopardy. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-drums-of-jeopardy (Original work published 1920)
MacGrath, Harold. The Drums of Jeopardy. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-drums-of-jeopardy.
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author = {MacGrath, Harold},
title = {The Drums of Jeopardy},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-drums-of-jeopardy},
note = {First published 1920}
}
