A review by kjcharles
Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy

Inexcusable Orientalist sub-Buchan tosh, which pretty much goes without saying if you know the author, but lots of interest as well, including the fact that amid the tosh is an unequivocal message from the British hero (written 1924) that Britain should get the hell out of India. ("Self-government... I've been working for that ever since I cut my eye-teeth. So has every other British officer and civil servant who has any sense of public duty.")

Also an intriguing reflection, when the narrator is getting badly treated by the villain's henchwomen:

I think it was simply sex-venom--the half-involuntary vengeance that the underdog inflicts on the other when positions are reversed. When India's women finally break purdah and enter politics openly, we shall see more cruelty and savagery, for that reason, than either the French or Russian terrors had to show.

BRB off to perpetrate sex-venom.