Since the days of Genghis Khan it was said that the ancient city of Shahrazar sheltered the treasure of long-dead shahs of Khuwarezm. Many an adventurer had sought that fabled hoard and many had died, for the forbidden city was closely guarded. But one man called Kirby O'Donnell staked his life against the golden lure of wealth beyond man's dreams. He entered the forbidden city in heavy disguise and found the treatsure - only to be forced to leave it in the subterranean tunnels beneath the palace... Swords of Shahrazar is one of three exciting stories featuring Kirby O'Donnell by Robert E. Howard, Creator of Conan and Kull. Cover illustration: Chris Achilleos
Author
Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror." He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. —Wikipedia Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
