Gate of Ivory Gate of Horn Author:Philip Craig This book was published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York 1969. — Here are the rollicking adventures of four people who set out to find---of all things---Beowulf's tomb. — Professor Cyril Ashman, the secret laughing stock of his colleagues, was obsessed by the idea that Beowulf had actually lived. It was his li... more »felong dream to search for Beowulf's tomb along the coast of Sweden. It was Professor Ashman who was responsible for...
Luther Martingale being thrown out of college, which didn't bother Lute too much until he discovered it also excluded him form his rich Aunt's will. Lute couldn't see his way back into either one until he won a thirty-six foot, ocean cruising sailboat in a three day poker game from...
Beorn Wiglafson, a giant Swede and natural born pirate. It was Beorn who accidently clipped...
Dorothy Ashman, the Professor's bookwormish niece, on the jaw and knocked her cold the first time they met--a forecast of things to come...
After winning the boat, Lute set out to win over the Professor. He organized an expedition and the four unlikely companions sailed off to find Beowulf's tomb--an adventure that was to have unexpected results for all involved.
Philip Craig grew up on a cattle ranch in southwestern Colorado where he was educated in a one-room schoolhouse. He and his four brothers and sisters helped run the ranch and each spring rove cattle to the summer ranges in the high country of the Rockies. He came East in search of a college that taught fencing and settled in at Boston University, adn then graduate school at the University of Iowa. He and his family now live in Hamilton. Massachusetts, and he is ASsistant Professor of English at Wheelock College.« less