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The Devils Smelled Nice: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Volume 2
The Devils Smelled Nice The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man Volume 2 Author:Lester Dent Lester Dent, the author of the Doc Savage series, had a gift for writing amusing adventure stories with larger-than-life heroes. In the late 1930s, Crime Busters Magazine bought a new series of long stories from Dent about Clickell Rush, the Gadget Man. Rush is a inventive scientific genius of a sort, but he can't seem to interes... more »t police forces in buying his scientific gadgets. Somehow, an anonymous wealthy benefactor puts a ceramic toad in Rush's rooms along with half a $10,000 bill. By putting a light bulb in a socket in the toad's mouth, it heats up a machine inside that lets the benefactor (who calls himself Bufa) talk to Rush. He assigns him to investigate a weird, off-beat crime. He'll give Rush the other half of the bill in payment when he solves the case. Rush hates this idea and participates unwillingly till he solves the case. The whole adventure is amusing but exciting. One has to admire Mr. Dent's amazing imagination in creating these stories.
The stories are being presented in book form for the first time in three volumes. This is volume 2 with six stories. « less