Originally serialized in 5 issues of Adventure, March 20 - April 30, 1923.
In 260 BC a project started by Emperor Asoka to collect all the knowledge of the world was started. After some time, all that data was collated into nine books of secret lore and nine men were chosen to guard the books. Now a priest named Father Cyprian has convinced Jimgrim and his friends, Ramsden and Ross, to find and bring down the descendants of that group who still hold the nine books.