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Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.
Zane Grey was quite the writer who researched and lived what he wrote about. I learned so much about his life and the many other things he wrote about besides the West! Gruber's constant use of both Zane's first and last name drove me crazy, however! Like we didn't know who he was talking about if he only used one or the other.