The Mental Wizard: A Doc Savage Adventure

by Lester Dent

Doc and his crew pursue the mysterious golden-haired (actual gold, not blonde) “Z”, a woman with powerful telepathic and hypnotic mental abilities, and her abductors to the jungles of South America and “Klantic”, a mile-long statue of an Egyptian pharaoh that puts the Sphinx to shame. Can the long-missing aviator Amber O’Neel help them solve the mystery—or, like Z, is he part of it?

Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2020

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.

Reviews

[Michael A. Phipps · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's Doc Savage

Lots of misspelled and incomplete words.
Still it was a good read.
I gave it five stars for the original story.
I've been a Doc Savage fan since my teenage years. I'm seventy now.