Doc Savage 005
by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent)
Doc Savage Magazine July 1933
From pulpcovers.com |
Not much in the way of plot. After the failed assassination attempt, Savage tracks down and chases the culprits, led by the elusive pirate Tom-Too, who seems more like a pan-Asian revolutionary than a bandit.
I was worried about this one because it opened with an almost surreal barrage of racial invective. Most of the time this stuff is just either outdated terms or casual bigotry, but Dent really unloads. This makes for uncomfortable reading for the modern reader, but it was also just bad writing. You really can't use "inscrutable" more than once in a paragraph. Luckily it seems that he was just getting it out of his system and he lets off a bit later in the book, though he stirr lesolts to that annoying R and L swap in the diarect. Also, Remmy is in black-face.
No comments:
Post a Comment