Lester Dent

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2006
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales

    Lester Dent penned many pulp adventures before he created Doc Savage in 1933 under the house name Kenneth Robeson. Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales collects five airship-themed stories published from 1930 to 1932, and includes material restored from Dent...

  • Polar Treasure/Pirate of the Pacific

    Pulp fiction's legendary Man of Bronze returns in two of his most engrossing adventures. Why does a blind violinist have a map tattooed on his back? Investigating the mystery, Doc Savage and his Iron Crew race to the Arctic icecap in search of the se...

  • Spook Legion/the Submarine Mystery

  • Honey in His Mouth

    Hard Case Crime - 60

    If you were small-time grifter Walter Harsh, recovering in a hospital with a broken arm, you'd listen to a proposition that could net you a cool $50,000 for impersonating the South American strongman you resemble. You'd pay attention when the dictato...

  • The Weird Adventures of the Blond Adder

    It's 1933 and pulp writer Lester Dent has created a new hero who uses 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 pa...

  • The Crime Spectacularist

    PULPVILLE PRESS PRESENTS: Foster Fade, Spectacularist in Crime, solves murders to make tabloid news, but his own name was marked for the obituary column when he followed the sinister trail of the Aroma Assassin in HELL IN BOXES. In the evil garden of...

  • Cry at Dusk

    A college football star’s dark past catches up with him when his uncle is murdered Johnny Marks knows all about running, and not just because he’s a standout on the football field. Ever since he was twelve, he’s been raised by his shady Uncl...

  • Dead at the Take-Off

    Chance Molloy pursues a crooked senator’s daughter aboard an airplane, but their flight is turbulent in more ways than one In the 1940s, air travel is still in its infancy. Seats turn into private sleepers, passengers smoke in flight, and it’s...

  • Hades & Hocus Pocus

    Two classic noir novellas about young men who find treacherous jobs during the Great Depression In "Hades," Alexander Titus, a former Olympic decathlon star, comes to Hollywood looking for work. He and his friend Haw Gooch are down to their last ...



  • Lady in Peril

    A couple’s dogged pursuit of a killer leads them to a deadly head-to head with a powerful organization David “Grocer” Jones made newspaper headlines for exposing a food pricing racket and testifying before a state senate committee. When he d...

  • Lady to Kill

    To get to the bottom of a business deal gone bad, Chance Molloy seeks answers from a young woman on a train -- but gets more than he expected Julie Edwards, a small-town physician’s assistant, is headed to New York to visit her old friend Martha...

  • Lady Afraid

    Desperate to recover her son, a yacht designer turns to a hard-bitten captain for help Sarah Lineyack’s in-laws hated her the moment she married their son. They hated her when she was pregnant, and they hated her even more after the car crash th...

  • Hell in Boxes

    In 1932, 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 ...

  • Genius Jones

    The gold-dusted saga of a red-bearded young giant, raised in the Arctic on seal-meat and encyclopedias, who descends on civilization with a loud and solid crash. In his search for wisdom and adventure, the man Jones doesn't have Aladdin's lamp-but he...

  • The Crime Spectacuralist

    A FICTION HOUSE REPRINT: Foster Fade, Spectacularist in Crime, solves murders to make tabloid news, but his own name was marked for the obituary column when he followed the sinister trail of the Aroma Assassin in HELL IN BOXES. In the evil garden o...

  • Flight Into Fear

    In this first adventure of Doc Savage, he is targeted for assassination by the Kremlin and fated for a confrontation with a nemesis more violent and vicious than any he has faced before, the Man of Bronze must evade a faceless executioner known only ...

  • Famous Fantastic Mysteries

    Another installment of the classic fantasy title, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, featuring a brand new, never-before published story by Lester Dent, the creator of Doc Savage! Also featuring several stories from the Popular Publications archives....

  • Mad Mesa a Doc Savage Adventure

    In one of the most masterly of Doc Savage adventures, the Man of Bronze awakens to discover that he’s in another man’s body and imprisoned in a penitentiary, serving a life sentence! Hundreds will die unless Doc can escape and solve the mystery o...

  • The Mystic Mullah

    It was an ageless thing that had existed since the beginning of time " a monstrous green face that spoke sudden death. With its legions of ghostly, nebulous soul slaves, it had begun to terrorize the world. Even Doc Savage and his fantastic five we...



  • The Phantom City

    Arabian thieves led by the diabolically clever Molallet set one fiendish trap after another for Doc Savage and his mighty five. Only “Doc”, with his superhuman mental and physical powers, could have withstood this incredible ordeal of endurance w...

  • The Stone Man

    Doc Savage and his fearless friends find a black arrowhead that leads a trail to the treacherous Spad Ames in the Arizona Badlands. There they encounter the mysterious men who live through the mists -- men who can turn flesh into stone. Lester Den...

  • The Annihilist

    The dread Annihilist was slaughtering the criminals of New York in wholesale lots. Hundreds of men were found mysteriously murdered, victims of the hideous pop-eyed death. The finger of suspicion pointed directly at one man, Doc Savage himself. Even ...

  • Fear Cay

    It was all a great mystery. Who was this man called Dan Thunden who claimed he was one hundred and thirty years old? Did he really have the secret of the fountain of youth? What was this island called Fear Cay that spelled horror and death? What was ...

  • The Man of Bronze

    High above the skyscrapers of New York, Doc Savage engages in deadly combat with the red-fingered survivors of an ancient, lost civilization. Then, with his amazing crew, he journeys to the mysterious “lost valley” to search for a fabulous treasu...

  • The Mystery on the Snow

    In one of his most important adventures, the Man of Bronze journeys north to Canada, and in her magnificent wilderness solves a billion-dollar riddle: Who or What has committed murder -- and worse! -- to possess the secret of the miracle called B...

  • The Terror in the Navy

    A bizarre dictator unleashes a deadly force against the United States Navy: the mightiest vessels in the U.S. armada are sunk; warplanes are pulled from the clouds; even Doc Savage’s impenetrable sky fortress is ripped from the stratosphere! And th...

  • Mad Mesa

    In one of the most masterly of Doc Savage adventures, the Man of Bronze awakens to discover that he’s in another man’s body and imprisoned in a penitentiary, serving a life sentence! Hundreds will die unless Doc can escape and solve the mystery o...

  • The Polar Treasure

    Menaced by “the strange clicking danger,” Doc Savage and his fabulous five-man army take a desperate journey on a polar submarine in search of a missing ocean liner and a dazzling treasure. Their only clue is a map tattooed on the back of a blind...

  • Meteor Menace

    Doc Savage and his fabulous crew journey to Tibet in pursuit of their most dangerous adversary, the evil genius Mo-Gwei. Battling against overwhelming odds, they try to stop him from conquering the world with a diabolical machine known as the Blue Me...



  • Black Mask

    Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koeh...

  • The Thousand-Headed Man

    With a mysterious black Chinaman, Doc Savage and his amazing crew journey to the jungles of Indo-China in a desperate gamble to destroy the infamous Thousand-headed Man. From the fogs of London to the jungles of Indo-China, Doc and his men follow the...

  • Thrilling Adventure Yarns

    The pulp magazine era was bristling with brawny men and statuesque women trotting all over the globe, getting into and out of danger. Their exploits quickened the pulses of their readers, young and old alike. They gave rise to some of the most end...

  • Luck

    On the strength of having sold only two stories to the legendary Black Mask magazine, Doc Savage creator Lester Dent is today hailed as one of the foremost practitioners of the Hardboiled School of detective fiction fostered by Carroll John Daly, Das...

  • Talking Toad

    During his thirty year career, Lester Dent created several outstanding characters, starting with the immortal Doc Savage, but also including Black Mask's Oscar Sail, Genius Jones, and others. One of the most successful was the Gadget Man, who appeare...

  • The Devils Smelled Nice

    During his thirty year career, Lester Dent created several outstanding characters, starting with the immortal Doc Savage, but also including Black Mask's Oscar Sail, Genius Jones, and others. One of the most successful was the Gadget Man, who appeare...

  • Six White Horses

    During his thirty year career, Lester Dent created several outstanding characters, starting with the immortal Doc Savage, but also including Black Mask's Oscar Sail, Genius Jones, and others. One of the most successful was the Gadget Man, who appeare...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lester Dent has published 36 books.

Lester Dent does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Six White Horses, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Lester Dent, Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales, was published in June 2006.

No. Lester Dent does not write books in series.
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