Armchair Fiction GOLDEN CENTIPEDE, THE

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Golden Centipede” by Louise Gerard is the 54^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Settled aboard a steamer heading to the west coast of Africa, the enthusiastic ornithologist, Major the Hon. Tracy Sinclair, had his mind on hunting. However, this trip he had a different bird in his sights—a jail bird!  A young devil fowl named Claude “The Babe” Wentworth had been stirring up trouble on the coast for some time, running guns and exporting illegal ivory from his base on the Rio del Ray. It was Sinclair’s mission to discreetly catch and cage this rogue game for transport back to England. But when a mysterious golden centipede is found aboard his ship, Sinclair would find himself entangled in more than a thief’s conspiracy and traitorous alliances, but one family’s long and sinister legacy. As the mysteries surrounding The Babe would lead them into the heart of a ghostly, devil-haunted West Africa to claim a monstrous inheritance.