The Weird Adventures of The Blond Adder
It’s 1933 and pulp writer Lester Dent has created a new hero who used gadgets to solve mysteries and fight crime. No, it’s not Doc Savage, but Lee Nace, the Blond Adder! This volume collects for the first time all five Lee Nace adventures from the pages of Ten Detective Aces. The majority of these have not seen the light of day since their original publication nearly 80 years ago! We’ve gone back to the original manuscripts to restore deleted passages and also included Lester Dent’s original character Bible for the Blond Adder series. Rounded out by an all-new introduction by pulp historian Will Murray, it’s the must-own pulp publication of the year.
June 24th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Got my copy. Will have to read and put up a review on Amazon.
July 8th, 2010 at 1:43 am
I thought there were eight Nace stories.
July 13th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
What a knockout!
These stories are a roughhewn lot. That’s not a bad thing. What they lack in polish of Dent’s later work (as in, say, Honey in His Mouth), they more than make up for in slambang nonstop action.
It’s also interesting to see Dent exercising a different style than his work in Doc Savage — which he was writing concurrently!
This is a homerun!
September 5th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
see my review on Amazon.