Murder Melody

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WHO IS DOC SAVAGE To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes To his amazing co adventurers the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil doers To his fans he is one of the greatest adventure heroes of all time, whose fantastic exploits are unequalled for hair raising thrills, breathtaking escapes and bloodcurdling excitement.INVASION FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTHIt began with a series of quakes which tore huge, gaping holes in the surface of the earth Soon the sky over the Northwest was filled with the bodies of strange floating men playing a weird melody of death Was the world doomed Could Doc Savage and his Fabulous Five save it from almost certain destruction Join them as they race to the center of the earth for a titanic battle with the power crazed leaders of a fantastic super civilization. Read Murder Melody By Kenneth Robeson – kino-fada.fr I keep personal records of all the books I ve ever read mainly for a family book reading competition that I compete in annually At the end of the year, on New Year s Eve, we get together as a family and add all the pages we ve read for that entire year It s a lot of fun, and keeps me reading Well, looking back on my records, supposedly I ve read this Doc Savage before I have no recollection of reading it previously The first Doc Savage I read was The Devil s Playground book 25 I keep personal records of all the books I ve ever read mainly for a family book reading competition that I compete in annually At the end of the year, on New Year s Eve, we get together as a family and add all the pages we ve read for that entire year It s a lot of fun, and keeps me reading Well, looking back on my records, supposedly I ve read this Doc Savage before I have no recollection of reading it previously The first Doc Savage I read was The Devil s Playground book 25 from July 23 26, 1998 The second book I read was Murder Melody from September 16 23, 1999 So, guess what the third book was Yes, it s Murder Melody again I ve now read it twice And what did I think of it the second time Since I don t remember reading it the first time, my views were new and fresh I really didn t like it ...Fun change of pace as Doc and company trace a series of earthquakes to a scientifically advanced subterranean civilization.Feels like the kind of story Philip Jose Farmer might have written.Lots of great sic fi ideas and first rate banter between the famous five.possibly read in winter 1967Earthquakes, bodies floating in mid air, and a mysterious letter summoning Doc Savage to the Northwest begin this adventure that takes the good Doc and his men on an adventure that leads to an underground kingdom This story would have worked very well as a movie serial of the 1930s.Good Doc adventure.The first Doc Savage story appeared in 1933 and the series ran in pulp and later digest format into 1949 Bantam reprinted the entire series in paperback with wonderful, iconic covers starting in the 1960 s Doc was arguably the first great modern superhero with a rich background, continuity, and mythos The characterizations were far richer than was common for the pulps his five associates and their sometimes auxiliary, Doc s cousin Pat, and the pets Chemistry and Habeas Corpus, all had very The first Doc Savage story appeared in 1933 and the series ran in pulp and later digest format into 1949 Bantam reprinted the entire series in paperback with wonderful, iconic covers starting in the 1960 s Doc was arguably the first great modern superhero with a rich background, continuity, and mythos The characterizations were far richer than was common for the pulps his five associates and their sometimes auxiliary, Doc s cousin Pat, and the pets Chemistry and Habeas Corpus, all had very distinctive characteristics and their byplay was frequentlyentertaining that the current adventure of the month The settings were also fascinating Doc s Fortress of Solitude, the Hidalgo Trading Company which served as a front for his armada of vehicles , and especially...I can t begin to relate the technical flaws the murderers play flutes that have auditory chemicals affecting those who listen Et cetera.The book at least goes for broke with detailing a lost civilization below the Earth s surface It turns out that all we know about plate tectonics is wrong the world is entirely hollow, and within the empty sphere lies a peaceful and advanced civilization powered by magnetic plates charged by all the lightning strikes in the outer world What they did I can t begin to relate the technical flaws the murderers play flutes that have auditory chemicals affecting those who listen Et cetera.The book at least goes for broke with detailing a lo...I enjoy pulps and I especially enjoy Doc Savage, but this one is just awful There s nothing interesting about it, and most of the science is unbelievable It s poorly written with no charm or wit of the other books in this series It just doesn t feel right and that s because it isn t written by Lester Dent, who wrote a good chunk of these novels under the house name of Kenneth Robeson This was written by Lawrence Donovan You d do well to pass on this one if you re reading the Doc Savage I enjoy pulps and I especially enjoy Doc Savage, but this one is just awful There s nothing interesting about it, and most of the science is unbelievable It s poorly wri...Of all the pulp era heroes few stand out above the crowd, Doc Savage is one of these With his 5 aides and cousin he adventures across the world Fighting weird menaces, master criminals and evil scientists Doc and the Fab 5 never let you down for a great...Doc goes up against alien invaders from inside the hollow earth in the most SF of all his adventures anti gravity, flying rockets, sonic death attacks, super magnetism, you name it Pinch hitting author Lawrence Donovan is a bit stiffer in style t...

Murder Melody
  • English
  • 20 August 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 138 pages
  • Kenneth Robeson
  • Murder Melody