Black Pearl

Miles Hawke is the author of ''The Dragonnade,'' an exciting tale of pirates, smugglers and high politics in Stuart days. Now he follows this up with a novel no less interesting and exciting. The same characters appear. Swords flash and bodices are ripped. It is told in authentic Eighteen-century Argot.

The Black Pearl concerns the disappearance of a priceless clock belonging to King Louis XIV, and then there is the theft by Judge Jeffrey''s of Inigo Pyke''s priceless black pearl. The scene is set for derring-do and it is all told in the author''s fast pacey writing style.