Hell in Boxes: The Exploits of Lynn Lash and Foster Fade

by Lester Dent

introduction by Will Murray

In 1933, Lester Dent jumpstarted his pulp fiction career when he created scientific detective Lynn Lash. Operating out of a New York skyscraper, Lash tackled super-scientific threats the police could not handle, opening the way for Dent’s greatest creation, the immortal Doc Savage. All three Lash cases are included in this volume, including a rare story not published during Dent’s lifetime, "The Flame Horror." Two years later, Dent produced a new gadget-wielding sleuth, Foster Fade, the Crime Spectacularist. Working for a major metropolitan tabloid, Fade solved crimes so bizarre they defied description. The entire Crime Spectacularist trilogy is presented for the first time ever in an authorized edition. This is Dent at his imaginative best—vintage hardboiled detective fiction with a weird menace twist!

346 pages, approx. 6"x9"

Hell in Boxes: The Exploits of Lynn Lash and Foster Fade

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11 Comments

  1. MB
    October 2, 2012

    On my To Buy list.

    I’ve read the Foster Fade stories (have Pulpville Press’s collection), but not Lynn Lash. So happy to replace it if I get Lash as well.

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  2. MB
    October 3, 2012

    I’ve put a VERY preliminary review, basically an edited version of my Foster Fade review. Once I’ve read the volume, I’ll be revising it to expand upon Lash and have other info, after seeing Will’s intro.

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    • MB
      October 17, 2012

      Final review up on Amazon.

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  3. Matt Moring
    October 4, 2012

    Thanks MB!

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  4. Don O'Malley
    October 4, 2012

    Dear Matt

    Any plans to publish the Click Rush, the Gadget Man stories of Lester Dent?

    Thanks
    Don O’Malley

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    • MB
      October 4, 2012

      Am not Matt, but Anthony Tollin has the rights to all the S&S stuff, including Click Rush. He’s been including Click Rush stories in some of his volumes. He’s reprinting 5 so far, mainly in Doc Savage. (there are 18 total).

      Same for Gibson’s Norgil stories.

      So it may be hard for Matt to get the rights to do so, tho I’d love to see a complete collection (1-2 volumes each maybe?) of all the Click Rush and Norgil stories.

      Click Rush also appeared in a few of S&S comic books. Wonder who wrote them (Dent or someone else???) and how they compare with the written version as they are apparently adaptions of the pulp stories.

      Also, Black Dog Books is doing the Lester Dent Library, of which they’ve done 3 volumes so far.

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  5. Matt Moring
    October 5, 2012

    We have plans for more Dent material….

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    • MB
      October 5, 2012

      Cool.

      Is it pulp stuff, which is what BDB seem to be focusing on, or Dent’s later post-Doc works I had seen mentioned on the Lester Dent Properties page (which now seems to be down)??

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      • Matt
        October 5, 2012

        Pulp stuff. A lot of which should surprise you when you hear about it….

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  6. Tom Kokenge
    October 6, 2012

    As long as people are asking, how about Genius Jones, Hades and Hocus Pocus, Den’s serials from the 1930′s
    BTW although not the place for it “The Crime Magnet” is a real treat!!!

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    • MB
      October 8, 2012

      Not familiar with those characters.

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