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Black Bartlemy's Treasure

Jeffery Farnol

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . of these staples and the ivy, until at last my fingers grasped the stone sill of a window; and now, the lattice being open, I contrived (albeit it with much ado) to clamber into the room. It was a fair-sized chamber, and the moonlight, falling athwart the floor, lit upon a great carven bed brave with tapestried hangings. Just now the silken curtains were up-drawn and upon the bed I saw a bundle of garments all ribands, laces and the like, the which, of themselves, gave me sudden pause. From these my gaze wandered to where, against the panelling, hung a goodly rapier complete with girdle and slings, its silver hilt, its guards and curling quillons bright in the moonbeams. So came I and, reaching it down, drew it from the scabbard and saw the blade very bright as it had been well cared for. And graven on the forte of the blade was the Conisby blazon and the legend:

ROUSE ME NOT.

Now as I stood watching the moonbeams play up and down the long b. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I confess to possessing low tastes when it comes to entertainment. I enjoy both drama and melodrama (as long as it's done well), and I am quite happy to suspend my disbelief to a significant degree for the sake of a good story. I want interesting characters doing interesting things in interesting pl

Fantastic story

Though the book ends in s painful cliffhanger, this part 1 of the story is one of my favorite books ever. Such depth of characters, such deep depth of human condition plumbed. Who has not had sorrow? Who has not raged against challenging circumstances? What a fantastic journey of man

Originally published on my blog here in May 1998.

Swashbuckling would not have been the same without Jeffery Farnol. He wrote many books in the spirit of the Errol Flynn films of the twenties; this one and its sequel, Martin Conisby's Vengeance, are typical, though among his best. These are the sourc

"The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke."

Mr. Farnol brings back the pirate days of the Spanish Main in this

4 1/2 for Martin Conisby's be moaning his lot. Could have been a 5

Martin Conisby is more animal than human. For the last five years he has been chained to the rowing bench of a galley ship. The hot sun baked his brains till his every waking and dreaming thought was bent on getting revenge. For all

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