The Gold of Malabar

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The Gold of Malabar
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Author Berkely Mather
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher Collins
Publication date
1967
Media typePrint

The Gold Of Malabar is a 1967 thriller novel by the British writer Berkely Mather. [1] [2] Mather had made his name as a novelist with his 1960 work The Pass Beyond Kashmir , which like The Gold of Malabar this was set in the Indian subcontinent.

While in jail in Goa for manslaughter, merchant seaman Michael O’Reilly discovers the location of buried treasure off the Bombay coast and escapes from prison in order to hunt for it.

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References

  1. Reilly p.1023
  2. Pine p.362

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