The Phantom Detective: The Emperor of Death

Overview

Meet Richard Curtis Van Loan, a.k.a. The Phantom Detective!

Who is The Phantom Detective? This masked enemy of crime is a product of the cataclysmic World War I. Born to wealth beyond all avarice, the war made him realize the futility of his pampered life. Daily face-to-face with death on the flaming Eastern Front, peace-time activities seemed too tame for him after his career as a "war bird" was over. He made himself the greatest sleuth of all time -- a worthy successor to Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin, and Philo Vance. Equipped with a knowledge of criminology second to none on Earth -- a master of make-up, the actor's art, mimicry, ventriloquism and hypnotism -- he embarked on his perilous crime-busting career, which lasted through the 1950s.

Originally published in the February, 1933 issue of "The Phantom Detective Magazine," here is the first novel in the long-running series, "The Emperor of Death," in which the Phantom Detective wages a lone-wolf campaign against a ruthless king of criminals, who plans a reign of wholesale death and destruction!

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Bio of Robert Wallace

Robert Wallace is the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service. The recipient of the Intelligence Medal of Merit, he is the founder of the Artemus Consulting Group, a private national security firm, and a contributor to the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence.

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Imprint

Wildside Press

Filesize

714.32 KB

Number of Pages

132

eBook ISBN

9781434479402