This novel encapsulates Fleming's adept skill in blending action, suspense, and romance, providing a fascinating window into the literary and social contexts of the mid-twentieth century.
Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.
... diamond merchants , called Schwabacher Brothers , until that firm ceased to exist . Schwa- bacher had originally obtained advances from the defendants upon the security of diamonds pledged by him in the year 1898 , when he was trading ...
... Diamond . KANSAS COAL LANDS FOR sale - In the southeast Kansas coal field , Crawford Co. , near the Mo. P. , Frisco , and Kansas City Sou . R. R. We own or control several tracts of land underlaid with Cherokee coal , and sometimes ...
... Diamond Council. This had been introduced to overcome trading in 'conflict diamonds', predominately from Africa, and to be consistent they could not authorise the sale, despite the connection with Katrina. Jack's heart sank. He needed ...
... Sale of Goods Sale or return Sub - transfer on sale or return " Act adopting the trans- action " Sale of Goods Act ... diamonds , and his case was that in January , 1910 , the defendant came to him and stated that he thought he had a customer ...