The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach

Description

Rex Beach wrote the romance of the Klondike with the authority of a man who had been there, and this 1916 collection gathers his short fictions in their most concentrated form. The title story turns on the gardenia of its name, a flower worn as a pledge and read as a death warrant in the traffic of the far North; elsewhere a rope’s end, an Inocencio, a wag-lady and a storm all do their appointed work in turning fortune inside out.

Beach’s country is the high-octane frontier, where characters arrive already tanned by adversity and the plots turn on gold, honor and women worth more than both. He writes with a fist-sized tenderness, letting the violence be physical and the sentiment practical, and every tale ends with a click of justice that American readers have loved since there were magazines to print it in. This is the collection to hand to anyone who wants Beach at his sharpest and most numerous.

For readers of the classic adventure tale

• Gold-rush atmosphere drawn by a participant, not a tourist.
• Self-contained stories, each with the impact of a full novel.
• Tough romance in the key Beach made famous.

About This DodaBooks Edition

The full 19 chapters are reset in clean, continuous type with a working index.