The Damascened Blade

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Lily Colbenz, American heiress, smart, willful, independent AND very desirous of experiencing the real and untamed India... had proven to be too difficult to handle while at Simla and was then sent with two other women to a Raj fort near Afghanistan... under Major Commander James Lindsay's protectio......more

The Damascened Blade is the third book in the series set in the age of the British Raj. In this novel, Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is responsible for the guarding of a young American woman in India's North-West Frontier. "Lily Coblenz, accompanied by a cunning businessman, a woman doctor,......more

The time is 1910, the place is India’s North Western Frontier – although strictly speaking under 21st-century geography, we’d now call that the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. It’s a wild and isolated place peopled by dangerous tribesmen who have traditions of honour that are alien to western minds. Wh......more

This is the third Joe Sandilands mystery I've read and it's my favourite so far. The setting is fantastic; what is now Pakistan, on the frontier border with the Khyber Pass. The characters are well-crafted; I enjoy Sandilands and I particularly liked Lily, the spirited American girl. The mystery was......more