Harold A. Lamb (1892-1962) was the award-wining author of historical biographies of such figures as Genghis Khan, Hannibal and Tamlerlane; in addition to nonfiction articles for National Geographic on such topics as The Crusades. Lamb also penned historical fiction for Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. During the first two decades of his writing career Lamb sold numerous short or novel-length works to such all-fiction pulp magazines such as Argosy and Adventure. Black Dog Books has published the following volumes of works by Lamb (with more to come):

MARCHING SANDS by Harold A. Lamb Gray was silent while the scientist placed his finger on a wall map of Asia. He drew his finger inland from the coast of China, past the rivers and cities, past the northern border of Tibet to a blank space under the mountains of Turkestan where there was no writing. “This is the blind spot of Asia,” Balch said. “It has grown smaller, as Europeans journeyed through its borders. Tibet we know. The interior of China we know, except for this blind spot. It is—” “In the Desert of Gobi.” “The one place explorers have been prevented from visiting. And it is here we have heard the Wusun are.” “We want you to start right off. We know that our dearest foes, the British Asiatic Society, have wind of the Wusun. They are fitting out an expedition. It will have the edge on yours because theirs will start from India, which is nearer the Gobi.” “Then it’s to be a race?” Gray asked. “A race it is,” nodded Balch. Robert Gray, ex-Army officer turned soldier of fortune, is hired by the American Exploration Society to find the Wusun, a fabled lost race. In a race against time, taking the path traveled by Marco Polo centuries before Gray uncovers a religious plot to keep the Wusun hidden—a plot which if revealed would rewrite the course of Eastern religious history forever. Volume 4 in the BDB Signature Series ISBN13 978-1-928619-49-9 Trade paperback / 174 pages / $19.95

THE SKULL OF SHIRZAD MIR by Harold Lamb "We were three men with two horse and two swords. We were outcasts in the thickets of the foot-hills of the Badakshan, under the peaks of the Roof of the World. We had earned the wrath of the Mogul of India and there were two thousand riders searching for us. It was the year of the Ox — the year 1608 by the Christian calendar — and Jani Beg, the Uzbek, had taken Badakshan from my lord, Baber Shirzad Mir, sometimes called the Tiger Lord. Nevertheless, we three were happy. We had taken Shirzad Mir from the hands of Jani Beg, who had marked him for death.”— thus runs the account of Abdul Dost as recorded in “Rose Face.” Abdul Dost, the Moslem swordsman teams up with the Englishman Sir Ralph Weyand through five consecutive adventures — “The Skull of Shirzad Mir,” “Said Afzel’s Elephant,” “Prophecy of the Blind,” “Rose Face” and culminating in the novel, “Ameer of the Sea” — to free the imprisoned rightful ruler Shirzad Mir and restore his lands to him from the tyranny of the evil Uzbek lord, Jani Beg. First time in paperback form. Cover art by Tom Roberts ISBN13 978-1-928619-41-3 ISBN10 1-928619-41-X Trade paperback / 181 pages / $19.95