Title attributed to Andre Norton

Sword in Sheath

& (aka) in the UK as Island of the Lost

& # 2 in the Swords series (aka) Lorens Van Norreys

Bibliography ~

¯ (1949) * Published by Harcourt Brace, HC, LCCN 49010979, $2.50, 246pg ~ cover and illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund {Blue Cloth Boards, Library Edition – Red Cloth with Pictorial Front Cover}

¯ (1957) * Published by World, HC, ~ this edition is highly questionable

¯ Sword Series Trilogy (1984) (Box Set) Published by Bookwrights, TP, 0-910-93725- ~ contains At Swords Point (1954), Sword in Sheath (1949) & The Sword is Drawn (1944)

¯ (1985) * Published by Unicorn Star Press, TP, 0-910-93727-3, LCCN 490010979, 223pg ~ cover by Keith Ward

Synopsis ~

V--E Day and V-J Day are in the past, but the war is not over. Not for Lorens van Norreys, the new master of the House of Norreys, not as long Nazi criminals are still at large. And not for Lawrence Kane and Sam Marusaki, two former OSS men, not as long as there are Americans still missing in action. The Three of them quickly become entangled in a mystery - Norreys as he searches for a lost treasure and Lawrence and Marusaki as they search for a lost American flyer. Together they face cutthroat pirates in the thousand islands of Indonesia, then they battle an unknown foe on an island known as the Forbidden Place, an uncharted landfill mentioned only in legends and from which, it it said, not one has ever returned alive.

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