The Phantom Detective: 5 Book Collection (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Detective Novels: Empire of Terror, Death Flight, The Sinister Dr. Wong, Fangs of Murder, Tycoon of CrimeBy Robert Wallace
Length17h 33m
About this audiobook
The Phantom Detective: 5 Book Collection gathers five brisk adventures from one of the longest-running pulp crime series of the twentieth century. Centered on the master detective and disguised crime-fighter Richard Curtis Van Loan, these tales combine locked-room ingenuity, underworld melodrama, and breathless action. Their style is unmistakably pulp: economical prose, cliff-hanger pacing, lurid atmosphere, and a fascination with modernity's anxieties—crime syndicates, urban anonymity, and the unstable boundary between law and vigilantism. Robert Wallace was the house name under which several Street & Smith–era writers contributed to the Phantom Detective mythos. The pseudonymous authorship reflects the industrial conditions of pulp publishing, where continuity of character mattered as much as individual literary signature. Written for a mass readership during the Depression and after, the stories channel contemporary desires for order, masculine competence, and moral clarity amid social uncertainty. This collection is recommended for readers interested in detective fiction's transition from classical ratiocination to superheroic crime-fighting. Scholars, pulp enthusiasts, and fans of masked avengers will find it a valuable, entertaining window into the popular imagination that helped shape later comic-book and noir traditions.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length17 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 21, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
7Fangs of Murder (pt. 2)
2Empire of Terror (pt. 1)
8Tycoon of Crime (pt. 1)
3Empire of Terror (pt. 2)
9Tycoon of Crime (pt. 2)
4Death Flight
10Tycoon of Crime (pt. 3)
5The Sinister Dr. Wong
11Memorable Quotes
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6Fangs of Murder (pt. 1)
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