Dead At The Take-off
By Lester Dent
1946
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Average Rating
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Lester Dent. Dead at the Take-Off. Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1946. First edition. Small octavo. 223 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket with $2.00 price. Murder strikes and tension mounts in a small plane headed from New York to Mexico.
Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
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Author
Lester Dent
Author · 8 books
Lester Dent (1904–1959) was born in La Plata, Missouri. In his mid-twenties, he began publishing pulp fiction stories, and moved to New York City, where he developed the successful Doc Savage Magazine with Henry Ralston, head of Street and Smith, a leading pulp publisher. The magazine ran from 1933 until 1949 and included 181 novel-length stories, of which Dent wrote the vast majority under the house name Kenneth Robeson. He also published mystery novels in a variety of genres, including the Chance Molloy series about a self-made airline owner. Dent’s own life was quite adventurous; he prospected for gold in the Southwest, lived aboard a schooner for a few years, hunted treasure in the Caribbean, launched an aerial photography company, and was a member of the Explorer’s Club.
