Peacock In Jeopardy

Peacock #4

by Katharine Gordon

Sarah Longman is rescued from a disastrous marriage by young Indian ruler Sher Khan II, and her husband, seeking revenge, joins enemy forces in a conspiracy to steal the fabled Peacock jewels

Genres: Historical Fiction, India

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Katharine Gordon was born on 1916 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, but she grew up in India, and except for occasional trips to her mother-in-law's home in Kent or her own family in Scotland has spent her life in India, Africa and in Cyprus. She worked as Secretary to E. A. Army Wardens in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1950 to 1951; as Immigration Officer at the Immigration Department in Nairobi from 1954 to 1957; and as Consular Clerk at British Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, from 1964 to 1969. She married an English RAF pilot retired after World War II and flew as an airline captain, and it was while he was on long trips that she began to write. She wrote many manuscripts, some twenty in all, and finally submitted The Emerald Peacock, based on a true story, for publication in 1978, wich she won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Reviews

[Michelle Swallow · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've now finished all the "Peacock" series of books by Katharine Gordon that I was able to get hold of.

This final book was my favourite. It felt as if it brought a final resolution to the story in The Peacock Ring.

Sadly, it did feel as if there was a lot more story missing from the intervening years between the end of The Peacock Fan and this book.

I've really enjoyed these books and especially that it was about a family where mixed marriages and children with mixed heritages were the main characters.