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The Red Tassel by Dodge, David is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The action in The Red Tassel, David Dodge’s third and final Al Colby adventure, takes place high in the Bolivian Andes. Colby is hired by the beautiful, red-headed Pancha Porter, who is making her first visit to Bolivia, to investigate a series of mysterious thefts and accidents at her lead and silver mine in San Martín Coquellache. The mine was left to her by her father and is managed by an American named Simon Braillard. Braillard suspects that the “accidents” are actually sabotage and that the village witch doctor, Yatiri, is behind them. Upon their arrival at the mine, Al and Pancha meet Braillard, his beautiful wife Lili and skinny son Carl, along with the mine’s chief employees. The thefts continue, including a daring nighttime raid on the mine’s llama herd. Just as Colby is beginning to unravel the relationships between Yatiri and the mine workers (everyone in the village is related and Braillard’s chief assistants are direct descendants of the witch doctor), Braillard winds up with a knife in his back and a red borla -- a woven ear tassel for a llama, used as a mark of ownership -- in his hand. Now he has to uncover the rest of Yatiri’s secrets before he and Pancha meet the

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Dodge, David
Publisher
Dell
Published
1950
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Fiction

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