The scene of L. Frank Baum's a.k.a Schuyler Stanton's novel "Daughters of Destiny" is laid in Baluchistan, where things happen that couldn't possibly happen elsewhere. The lives and fates of two women from America and another of the Orient are criss-crossed in a way to evolve details of curious character and extraordinary interest.

The Fate of a Crown, written by the famous "Oz" author L. Frank Baum under the alias of Schuyler Staunton is a stirring novel of the events of a South American revolution. A young man just out of college goes to Brazil as secretary of the prime mover in the revolution, and by so doing begins a series of adventures that run from tragic to comic, ending with the success of the conspiracy, a straightening out of many tangles, and the marriage of the hero to one of the most brilliant and beaut...