{"id":1959,"date":"2007-06-04T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T23:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/the_chinatown_d\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T23:16:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T23:16:49","slug":"the_chinatown_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/the_chinatown_d\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0099507331&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t fail to want to read a book called The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril can you? And just look at that cover!<br \/>\nThis is pulp book set in a pulp era. I should explain a bit more. The novel has two protagonists, Walter Gibson who used to write <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Shadow\">The Shadow<\/a>, and Lester Dent who penned <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doc_savage\">Doc Savage<\/a>. These were two incredibly popular pulp magazines that were effectively monthly short novels published on cheap paper with fantastical covers. Now I&#8217;ll be perfectly honest, and will admit that I&#8217;ve not really read any of these pulp titles, but I&#8217;m inclined to maybe give one or two a go.<br \/>\nThese two rivals don&#8217;t especially like one another, but in this entertaining novel, they end up getting involved in a complicated real-life case involving strange Chinamen, toxic gas, and strange sects.<br \/>\nThere are plenty of other real-life characters who get involved in the case, not least HP Lovecraft and a certain L Ron Hubbard (he hasn&#8217;t invented a &#8220;religion&#8221; at this point, and is instead an up and coming pulp author).<br \/>\nI could get into the story a bit more, but it&#8217;s as rip-roaring and believable as the pulps it&#8217;s gently mocking. So I&#8217;ll just say that this is page-turner. It maybe goes on a little long with a couple of false endings, but I liked it nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t fail to want to read a book called The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril can you? And just look at that cover! This is pulp book set in a pulp era. I should explain a bit more. The novel has two protagonists, Walter Gibson who used to write The Shadow, and Lester Dent who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}