The Lost Oasis: A Doc Savage Adventure

by Lester Dent

In a remote part of the Sahara, Doc and friends battle Sol Yuttal, Hadi-Mot, carnivorous plants, and vampire bats for a fortune in diamonds. The fictional airship Aeromunde is based on the real-life French airship Dixmude, lost over the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, 21 December 1923.

155 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 14, 2018

About the author

Lester Dent (1904–1959) was born in La Plata, Missouri. In his mid-twenties, he began publishing pulp fiction stories, and moved to New York City, where he developed the successful Doc Savage Magazine with Henry Ralston, head of Street and Smith, a leading pulp publisher. The magazine ran from 1933 until 1949 and included 181 novel-length stories, of which Dent wrote the vast majority under the house name Kenneth Robeson. He also published mystery novels in a variety of genres, including the Chance Molloy series about a self-made airline owner. Dent’s own life was quite adventurous; he prospected for gold in the Southwest, lived aboard a schooner for a few years, hunted treasure in the Caribbean, launched an aerial photography company, and was a member of the Explorer’s Club.