The Ruby of Suratan Singh: The Adventures of Scarlet and Bradshaw, Volume 2

by Theodore Roscoe

Best remembered as the author of Thibaut Corday and his French Foreign Legion yarns, author Theodore Roscoe wrote another, little-known, long-running the adventures of curio hunter Peter Scarlet and Bradshaw, the naturalist. While each appeared in solo stories, they also teamed up in several yarns. These tales of treasure in the Orient are action-filled adventure by one of pulpdom’s best. Volume 2 collects the next six adventures, taken primarily from the pages of Argosy Magazine.

169 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 4, 2018

About the author

Theodore Roscoe (1906–1992) was an American biographer and writer of adventure, fantasy novels and stories. Roscoe's stories appeared in pulp magazines including Argosy, Wings, Flying Stories, Far East Adventure Stories, Fight Stories, Action Stories and Adventure. A collection of his stories, The Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh, was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1981.

Roscoe was commissioned by the United States Naval Institute to write the detailed and massive histories United States Submarine Operations in World War II (1949) and United States Destroyer Operations in World War II (1953). He subsequently wrote several other books on naval history including The Trent Affair, November, 1861: U.S. detainment of a British ship nearly brings war with England (1972).

Reviews

[L J Field · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here we have the second volume of the adventures of curio hunter Scarlet and Bradshaw, the naturalist. Their base of operations is in the Orient, though journeys to Africa, Vietnam and India also occur. There are five stories and novellas in the book, with the three stories in the center being the best. Roscoe was one of the deans of pulp adventure and these tales are just as good today as when they were written in 1929 and 1930.