Dr. Thaddeus C. Harker

Dr. Thaddeus C. Harker (Complete Volume)

By Edwin Truett Long

Altus Press www.altuspress.com/

ISBN #978-1618271082

Price $25.90

350 Pages

Rating 5-Stars

“A Fascinating Pulp Character”

In this beautifully produced and designed volume from Altus Press the only three Doc Harker novels are reprinted for the first time since 73 years. Doc Harker was unique among the pulps. Traveling the south in medicine show during the 1940s, he sold a cure- all concoction called Chickassha Remedies as he entertained the local town’s people with his aides, strong man Hercules Jones, and beautiful Brenda Sloan. A criminologist, he always seemed to find mysterious crime in the towns where he stopped. Three stories were published in the Munsey magazine, “Crime Nest”, April 1940; “Woe To The Vanquished”, June 1940; and “South of The Border”, August 1940. The stories appeared under the byline of Edwin Truett, in truth Edwin Truett Long, a Texas author popular in the Spicy magazines under a variety of pseudonyms.

Doc Harker was a fascinating pulp character, and one that readers will love. Highly recommended.

Tom Johnson

Echoes Magazine