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Raven Books
Publisher: Abelard-Schuman.
Place: London, New York and Toronto. Date: 1960-1972.
The Last Concubine
by Frances Shelley Wees
London, New York and Toronto: Abelard-Schuman, 1970 (Raven Books)
Hardback with dustwrapper. 191 pages. Size: 22cm.
The last emperor of China had a concubine with whom he was much in love. In the year of the Boxer Rebellion he was forced to flee the Forbidden City. The concubine also escaped, taking with her the magnificent jewels he had given her, chief among them a historic necklace of great beauty. In a few months she had a daughter, but the Emperor never knew that there had been a child. It is the year of the Great Leap Forward. Lyn and Michael Brian, a jewel buyer, are touring China with the Canadian League for International Understanding. Lyn wears a copy of a beautiful old Chinese necklace, which arouses strange reactions wherever they go, and she apparently despises her husband. Nora Miller, with a journalist's instincts, suspects a plot to smuggle jewels out of the country. Fearing that the entire group may be endangered, she trails Lyn through the crumbling streets of Peking.
RAVEN BOOKS (ABELARD-SCHUMAN
Series Note: Abelard-Schuman's Raven Books comprises crime fiction, detective and mystery fiction and thrillers.
Title / Author / Year of Publication
Anatomy of a Killer
by Peter Rabe
1960
Babes in the Woods
by Lillian O'Donnell
1965
The Berlin Couriers
by James McGovern
1960
A Candle for the Dead
by Hugh Marlowe
1966
Cry Vengeance
by Ludovic Peters
1961
Dames Can Be Deadly
by Peter Chambers
1964
Death is a Silent Room
by Jay Bennett
1965
Death of a Player
by Lillian O'Donnell
1964
Death Schuss
by Lillian O'Donnell
1963
Dive into Darkness
by Lillian O'Donnell
1971
Downbeat Kill
by Peter Chambers
1964
The Face of the Crime
by Lillian O'Donnell
1968
Flight of Hawks
by Matthew Eden
1969
The Floater
by Bruce Cassiday
1960
The Gilt-edged Traitor
by Matthew Eden
1972
His Father's Ghost
by Stratford Davis
1963
The Impromptu Impostor
by Victor V̈icas and Victor Haïm
1971
Justice? Stories of Famous Modern Trials
by Leonard R. Gribble
1970
The Keys of Hell
by Martin Fallon [= Jack Higgins]
1965
Killers in the Sun
by J. Earle Dixon
1960
Lady, Drop Dead
by Lawrence Treat
1960
The Last Concubine
by Frances Shelley Wees
1970
The Man in the Driver's Seat
by Ira Walker
1964
Mr. Holroyd Takes a Holiday
by William Stanley
1966
Murder, Maestro, Please
by Jack Sharkey
1961
Murder, Sunny Side Up
by R. B. Dominic
1968
Murder Under the Sun
by Lillian O'Donnell
1964
The Neutron Beam Murder
by Terry Johnson King
1965
The Night has Another Voice
by Giuseppe Colizzi
1963
The Noose of Red Beads
by Terry Johnson King
1968
Paper Albatross
by Rupert Croft-Cooke
1968
Passage by Night
by Hugh Marlowe
1964
Reason for Madness
by Theodore S. Drachman
1970
The Sleeping Beauty Murders
by Lillian O'Donnell
1977
Smile and Be a Villain
by Hamilton Jobson
1971
A Snatch of Music
by Ludovic Peters
1962
Someone's Stolen Nellie Grey
by Irma Walker
1963
The Tachi Tree
by Lillian O'Donnell
1968
Tarakian
by Ludovic Peters
1963
The Testament of Caspar Schultz
by Martin Fallon
1962
Wreath for a Redhead
by Peter Chambers
1962
Women Who Murder
by Gerald Sparrow
1971
Year of the Tiger
by Martin Fallon
1963