H Bedford Jones: 31 books

Fanatic followers of Mohammed stormed out of Arabia in the seventh century to slaughter the Greek troops of the Great Eastern Empire and conquer Egypt… and again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling historic drama.

That strange bewitching jewel, the Sphinx Emerald, plays another part in world drama when a Mata Hari betrays the Egyptians, and Artaxerxes of Persia storms up the Nile to take over the ancient kingdom of the Pharaohs.

Vincent Connor wondered why a Russian countess should invite his friend to dinner in the French concession at Tientsin; and the answer was sudden and grim.

To manage a Far East business in spite of Chinese intrigues takes both courage and brains; and Vincent Connor’s friends never guessed he had either.

The malign magic of the Sphinx Emerald works its spell anew in one of the famous dramas of history.

All China was buzzing with talk about the theft of the priceless Han jades when Connor, free-lance of Oriental politics, took a hand in the risky game.

Catherine de Medici coveted the Sphinx Emerald. And when the King gave it as a reward to his physician, Doctor Nôtredame rode in dire peril of his life.

This series about the Sphinx Emerald constitutes, as has been said, a veritable Outline of History—or perhaps “Highlights of History” would be more accurate. For this reason the greatest event in all history could not be left out. Here, then, we see the Holy Family during the exile in Egypt.

His companions of the China clubs and legations thought Vincent Connor a wealthy playboy; but his “play” was matching wits in tight places against wily Oriental intriguers…

A strange jewel that wrought mischief and magic as it passed from hand to hand down the ages starts its strange eventful dramatic history here in Ancient Egypt...

Steel clashed and bugles blared in the Antioch of December 362... and the strange Sphinx Emerald flashed again to potent life.

In Santa Fe, the story of this malign and magic jewel, which began in Ancient Egypt, comes to its strange conclusion.

The strange Sphinx Emerald which Richard had brought home to England from the Crusades was the property of Edward III in this year 1349—a year of triumph because of victory; of terror because of pestilence. And when a beautiful woman coveted the jewel, its tragic power came again to life.

From the hand of a dead Mameluke after the battle of the Pyramids, a civilian scientist with Napoleon’s army took the Sphinx Emerald… and though the Mameluke’s militant daughter offered to buy back the gem at a price high indeed, swift tragedy followed.