12mo. Hinges starting.

12mo. Hinges starting.

Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Corners bumped with color loss but no

Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Corners bumped with color loss but no fraying, inner hinge papers are cracked, 211 pp text tight and bright. Written by Lester Dent, under the pen name of Kenneth Robeson. From the moment it begins with the discovery of a Viking ship off the coast of Long Island, until the last 11 paragraphs of this book, there is nothing but rip-roaring adventure and action. Because there are so many plot twists, mysteries, and surprises, much additional detail would be described as "spoilers." Suffice it to say that this high-tension tale takes our heroes from Manhattan to the frozen wasteland of Labrador. One by one, each of the Savage crew is waylaid and put into dire straights of death. (Each except "Long Tom, " who is not along for this adventure. ) In between the bullets, the spears, the knife-play, author Robeson/Dent manages to insert a political statement at this time of 1935 when the United States was considering a separatist movement as winds of war and mighty change were brewing in Europe: "The small chaps concluded they would be better off if they kept to themselves and did not let the outer world know they were here. That, you know, is not an uncommon attitude around primitive people.