"The Spider and the Slave Doctor"
Just finished listening to "The Spider and the Slave Doctor" by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge, released by Radio Archives.
Now as frequent readers of my reviews here on Facebook know, I always reveal when I have a connection to the book, movie, music CD, and/or audio drama that I am reviewing. I have written liner notes for some of Radio Archives' collections and while I never have met and/or talked with Nick Santa Maria, we are friends here on Facebook. I believe in fair and full disclosure.
The Spider is one of the most intriguing anti-heroes from the Golden Age of Pulp Magazines. To say that Richard Wentworth, a.k.a. The Spider, has "issues" would be akin to saying that Bruce Wayne is a normal guy. Wentworth is fiction's first popular anti-hero serial killer. While Raffles was also a popular fictional anti-hero, he was just a thief, pure and simple. The Spider kills for the good of humanity and sends warning to criminals by marking his kills with the vermilion seal of the Spider on their foreheads. Wentworth also displays behavior typical of someone who is suffering from manic depression and he most definitely has a savior complex and a team of disciples who willingly follow him into hell and back.
The Spider also has a gritty, realistic determination that has helped him endure during his initial 10-year-run in the pulps. Mom and Dad always enjoyed listening to each release of The Spider's adventures that Nick Santa Maria brought to thrilling life.
One of the more interesting aspects of Norvell W. Page's life was that he was deeply religious and a student of several Western and Eastern religions, and a good majority of his Spider novels are quests towards redemption in the best of religious traditions.
So it's only natural that Richard Wentworth would become involved in the case of Doctor Gilmuir who is on trail for murder and is being railroaded into the death house by the machinations of the Man in the Red Mask, who is seeking to control the United States through the medical drug supply chain.
Only Wentworth has seemingly handcuffed himself by trying to clear Doctor Gilmuir without resorting to his alter-ego as The Spider! And this time his beloved Nita might not survive!
Another thrilling adventure of The Spider!
Highly Recommended!
Ten Stars!
https://www.radioarchives.com/The_Spi...
Now as frequent readers of my reviews here on Facebook know, I always reveal when I have a connection to the book, movie, music CD, and/or audio drama that I am reviewing. I have written liner notes for some of Radio Archives' collections and while I never have met and/or talked with Nick Santa Maria, we are friends here on Facebook. I believe in fair and full disclosure.
The Spider is one of the most intriguing anti-heroes from the Golden Age of Pulp Magazines. To say that Richard Wentworth, a.k.a. The Spider, has "issues" would be akin to saying that Bruce Wayne is a normal guy. Wentworth is fiction's first popular anti-hero serial killer. While Raffles was also a popular fictional anti-hero, he was just a thief, pure and simple. The Spider kills for the good of humanity and sends warning to criminals by marking his kills with the vermilion seal of the Spider on their foreheads. Wentworth also displays behavior typical of someone who is suffering from manic depression and he most definitely has a savior complex and a team of disciples who willingly follow him into hell and back.
The Spider also has a gritty, realistic determination that has helped him endure during his initial 10-year-run in the pulps. Mom and Dad always enjoyed listening to each release of The Spider's adventures that Nick Santa Maria brought to thrilling life.
One of the more interesting aspects of Norvell W. Page's life was that he was deeply religious and a student of several Western and Eastern religions, and a good majority of his Spider novels are quests towards redemption in the best of religious traditions.
So it's only natural that Richard Wentworth would become involved in the case of Doctor Gilmuir who is on trail for murder and is being railroaded into the death house by the machinations of the Man in the Red Mask, who is seeking to control the United States through the medical drug supply chain.
Only Wentworth has seemingly handcuffed himself by trying to clear Doctor Gilmuir without resorting to his alter-ego as The Spider! And this time his beloved Nita might not survive!
Another thrilling adventure of The Spider!
Highly Recommended!
Ten Stars!
https://www.radioarchives.com/The_Spi...
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