Tros of Samothrace

© 6/15/1968 Chivers Publications. An omnibus volume of all the Tros stories, originally written for “Adventure“ magazine between 1925 and 1926. They are sensationalist adventure stories about a simple Greek adventurer and his duels with Julius Caesar. Some think they are biased against Caesar, but they are great fun!

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Talbot Mundy created his best character more or less by accident. He was a favorite at Adventure, one of the top quality pulps in the ‘20s & ‘30s. He had committed to a historical yarn about Queen Cleopatra (first it would appear as a serial in Adventure, then as a hard-back novel). But he kept stalling, it turns out he found a rather minor character to be far more interesting. The story of Cleopatra’s captain proved far more compelling. The Queen got a novel eventually, but Tros got a novel three times as long and another that followed Queen Cleopatra!