Cry at Dusk by Lester DentMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Cry at Dusk is part adventure pulp and part hardboiled crime novel. Pulp writers from the golden age like Lester Dent tended to always write adventure serials even when writing PBOs for Gold Medal. Another case that comes to mind is Cornell Woolrich's The Savage Bride which owes more to Rider Haggard than to his crime novels of the 40s.
What was interesting about the first half of Cry at Dusk--and the cover suggest this as well--is that it reads pretty much like a typical GM crime novel, but then turns into an exotic adventure of lost treasure.
View all my reviews
