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The Night Nemesis: The Complete Adventures of the Moon Man, Volume 1
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469 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1985
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Frederick C. Davis
132 books6 followersFrederick Clyde Davis (1902-1977) was an American pulp writer. He was educated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and became a professional writer at the age of 22. Davis wrote several novels featuring his series detective, Professor Cy Hatch. He also wrote as Murdo Coombs, Stephen Ransome and Curtis Steele. Books under his own name were published in the UK as by Stephen Ransome. Other series characters were Schyler Cole and Luke Speare.
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June 25, 2019
COUNTDOWN: Mid-20th Century North American Crime
BOOK/Novella 168 (of 250)
If you're a fan of Super Heroes solving crimes, you must read about Davis' Moon Man). From this volume I chose the novella, "Crimson Shackles". Davis authored nearly 60 novels (I can't find a single one at my library chain) and more than a million words a year in the 1930s and 1940s, editor Otto Penzler tells us.
HOOK=3 stars: "A red light flickered on the svitchboard in police headquarters...They're robbing the museum! Send the police!" Standard opening fare for a crime story.
PACE=3: Moon Man has the MOVES!
PLOT= 3: Can the Moon Man find the museum thieves? Or is he in on it for some odd reason?
CHARACTERS=4:Moon Man is Steve Thatcher, the son of the Chief of Police, and the Chief has a lovely daughter (of course!) planning to marry Moon Man/Steve. Oh, such deceit! Then there are the Red Six, a surprising bunch. Plus Ned Dargan, the "ex-pug, secret lieutenant, bound by "deepest friendship and loyalty" to Moon Man. A cast of those "in" and those "out" and those in the middle, questioning, suspicious of it all.
PLACE/ATMOSPHERE=2: A museum is robbed but there is no mention of the stolen items or even of the type of museum: big? small? art? rare gems? a sports museum, a music museum, a museum of the USA Presidents (and their numerous bankruptcies and payments to strippers and lies and thefts?) The Red Six have a secret meeting place but that isn't described either, other than it's a secret. Maybe that's the point, since it's not like the readers are going to go looking for it: gotta get to that museum first!
SUMMARY: My average rating is 3.0. Davis is very strong on characters here.
BOOK/Novella 168 (of 250)
If you're a fan of Super Heroes solving crimes, you must read about Davis' Moon Man). From this volume I chose the novella, "Crimson Shackles". Davis authored nearly 60 novels (I can't find a single one at my library chain) and more than a million words a year in the 1930s and 1940s, editor Otto Penzler tells us.
HOOK=3 stars: "A red light flickered on the svitchboard in police headquarters...They're robbing the museum! Send the police!" Standard opening fare for a crime story.
PACE=3: Moon Man has the MOVES!
PLOT= 3: Can the Moon Man find the museum thieves? Or is he in on it for some odd reason?
CHARACTERS=4:Moon Man is Steve Thatcher, the son of the Chief of Police, and the Chief has a lovely daughter (of course!) planning to marry Moon Man/Steve. Oh, such deceit! Then there are the Red Six, a surprising bunch. Plus Ned Dargan, the "ex-pug, secret lieutenant, bound by "deepest friendship and loyalty" to Moon Man. A cast of those "in" and those "out" and those in the middle, questioning, suspicious of it all.
PLACE/ATMOSPHERE=2: A museum is robbed but there is no mention of the stolen items or even of the type of museum: big? small? art? rare gems? a sports museum, a music museum, a museum of the USA Presidents (and their numerous bankruptcies and payments to strippers and lies and thefts?) The Red Six have a secret meeting place but that isn't described either, other than it's a secret. Maybe that's the point, since it's not like the readers are going to go looking for it: gotta get to that museum first!
SUMMARY: My average rating is 3.0. Davis is very strong on characters here.
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