Jimgrim, Moses, and Mrs. Aintree

Jimgrim/Ramsden/Ommony #9

by Talbot Mundy

An adventure that stretches from Cairo to Lake Tahoe, with plenty of chicanery, skulduggery, and televangelism -- decades before television was even thought of!

129 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1922

About the author

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.

Reviews

[Paul Cornelius · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jimgrim all but disappears in this particular book in the series. It's Jeff Ramsden all the way through. And all the way through takes the reader from New York and Boston to West Virginia and, finally, a showdown at Lake Tahoe, on the other side of the continent. Looted archeological treasure is the spur for the story. That, and a worldwide plot by black Africans to take over the world. The book is worth reading for no other reason than its black revolutionary reading of Moses and the Exodus.

Otherwise, Mundy has once more turned to a novel of mere action and no thought, although you might see some schisms within the practitioners of Theosophy reflected in the plot. Mundy wrote this story in 1922 and joined the Theosophical Society in 1923.

Ultimately, the story makes you long for the return of Jimgrim and the setting of the Middle East.