The Sky Walker - Avenger, Bk 3 Author:Kenneth Robeson The Sky Walker seems to be a man walking in the air over Chicago, pushing a barrel-sized object. His appearance is associated with shattering glass, vanishing railroad tracks that cause a train to derail, the collapse of an office building and a pavilion. People panic, fearing foreign invasion. Inventors Max and Robert Gant are murdered by crimi... more »nals, and Josh and Rosabel Newton, the Gants' servants, are enlisted by Benson to help in the investigation. The Gants invented a means of making a glassite airplane truly invisible (except for the engine) and a vibration mechanism that can reduce a target substances to hydrogen. The criminals use the plane and vibrator to cause the public to lose trust in any steel not made from ore taken from the Catawbi Range, controlled by the gang. The gang, well-organized and ruthless, almost succeeds. Benson disguises himself as a gang member, interferes with the plane's invisibility treatment, and frees himself and his aides from a death trap. The gang escapes in the now-visible plane, and is shot from the sky by the army.
A personal tragedy, the loss of his family and all facial expression and coloration due to shock and nerve damage, left Richard Benson swearing vengeance on the underworld. Justice Inc., his quirky crime fighting crew, included a petite young woman (Nellie), a mountain engineer (Smitty), a scottish chemical expert (Mac) and a married black couple (Josh and Rosabel). Benson had the ability to disguise himself by twisting his dead, malleable features into others' faces.
First published in The Avenger pulp magazine in 1939.
Paul Ernst writing under pseudonym Kenneth Robeson.
Kenneth Robeson: a house pseudonym used by Street and Smith Publications -- used by Lester Dent, Paul Ernst, Ron Goulart, Will Murray« less