Order of Lester Dent Books
Lester Dent (1904-1959) was an American author of pulp fiction. He is best known for his contributions to the Doc Savage series (writing as Kenneth Robeson). Dent went to college for business, intending to be a banker. While he was standing in line to apply, he discovered that telegraph operators made $20 more than bankers, so he decided to major in telegraphy. It was as he was working as a telegrapher for the Associated Press that he noticed how much writers made by writing for pulp magazines and began writing during slow hours. It wasn’t long before he was writing exclusively for Dell Publishing for $500 per month. Following Dell ceasing publication of their pulp magazines, he was contacted by Street and Smith Publications about writing a pulp magazine for an adventure hero – a hero that would end up becoming Doc Savage. Although the magazines were published under the house name of Kenneth Robeson, Dent was paid $500 (and later $750) per novel.
Lester Dent became a published author in 1933 with the Doc Savage novel The Man of Bronze. After that, new novels were published monthly until 1947. While Dent wrote the lion’s share of the Doc Savage novels, other authors contributed as well. We have only included the novels attributed to Lester Dent. For the rest, please see Doc Savage. Dent also wrote standalone novels under his own name, starting in 1946 with Dead at the Take-Off. Below is a list of Lester Dent’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Doc Savage Books
| The Man of Bronze | (1933) |
  
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| The Land of Terror | (1933) |
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| Quest of the Spider | (1933) |
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| The Polar Treasure | (1933) |
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| Pirate of the Pacific | (1933) |
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| The Red Skull | (1933) |
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| The Lost Oasis | (1933) |
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| The Sargasso Ogre | (1933) |
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| The Czar of Fear | (1933) |
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| The Phantom City | (1933) |
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| Brand of the Werewolf | (1934) |
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| The Man Who Shook the Earth | (1934) |
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| Meteor Menace | (1934) |
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| The Monsters | (1934) |
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| The Mystery on the Snow | (1934) |
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| The Thousand-Headed Man | (1934) |
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| The Squeaking Goblin | (1934) |
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| Fear Cay | (1934) |
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| Death in Silver | (1934) |
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| The Sea Magician | (1934) |
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| The Annihilist | (1934) |
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| The Mystic Mullah | (1935) |
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| Red Snow | (1935) |
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| The Spook Legion | (1935) |
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| The Secret in the Sky | (1935) |
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| The Roar Devil | (1935) |
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| Quest of Qui | (1935) |
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| Spook Hole | (1935) |
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| The Majii | (1935) |
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| Mystery Under the Sea | (1936) |
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| The Metal Master | (1936) |
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| The Seven Agate Devils | (1936) |
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| The Midas Man | (1936) |
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| The South Pole Terror | (1936) |
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| Resurrection Day | (1936) |
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| The Vanisher | (1936) |
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| The Derrick Devil | (1937) |
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| The Mental Wizard | (1937) |
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| The Terror in the Navy | (1937) |
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| Ost | (1937) |
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| The Feathered Octopus | (1937) |
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| Repel | (1937) |
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| Devil on the Moon | (1938) |
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| The Pirate's Ghost | (1938) |
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| The Submarine Mystery | (1938) |
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| The Giggling Ghosts | (1938) |
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| The Red Terrors | (1938) |
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| Fortress of Solitude | (1938) |
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| The Devil Genghis | (1938) |
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| Mad Mesa | (1939) |
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| The Yellow Cloud | (1939) |
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| The Freckled Shark | (1939) |
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| The Gold Ogre | (1939) |
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| The Flaming Falcons | (1939) |
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| Poison Island | (1939) |
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| The Stone Man | (1939) |
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| The Dagger in the Sky | (1939) |
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| The Other World | (1940) |
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| The Evil Gnome | (1940) |
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| The Boss of Terror | (1940) |
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| The Awful Egg | (1940) |
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| The Men Vanished | (1940) |
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| The All-White Elf | (1941) |
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| The Golden Man | (1941) |
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| The Pink Lady | (1941) |
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| The Green Eagle | (1941) |
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| Mystery Island | (1941) |
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| Birds of Death | (1941) |
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| The Invisible Box Murders | (1941) |
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| Peril in the North | (1941) |
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| The Rustling Death | (1942) |
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| Men of Fear | (1942) |
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| The Too-Wise Owl | (1942) |
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| Pirate Isle | (1942) |
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| The Speaking Stone | (1942) |
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| The Man Who Fell Up | (1942) |
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| The Three Wild Men | (1942) |
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| The Fiery Menace | (1942) |
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| The Laugh of Death | (1942) |
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| They Died Twice | (1942) |
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| The Devil's Black Rock | (1942) |
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| The Time Terror | (1943) |
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| Waves of Death | (1943) |
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| The Black, Black Witch | (1943) |
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| The King of Terror | (1943) |
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| The Talking Devil | (1943) |
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| The Running Skeletons | (1943) |
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| Mystery on Happy Bones | (1943) |
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| The Mental Monster | (1943) |
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| Hell Below | (1943) |
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| The Goblins | (1943) |
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| The Secret of the Su | (1943) |
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| The Spook of Grandpa Eden | (1943) |
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| According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic | (1944) |
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| Death Had Yellow Eyes | (1944) |
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| The Derelict of Skull Shoal | (1944) |
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| The Whisker of Hercules | (1944) |
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| The Three Devils | (1944) |
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| The Pharaoh's Ghost | (1944) |
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| The Man Who Was Scared | (1944) |
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| The Shape of Terror | (1944) |
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| Weird Valley | (1944) |
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| Jiu San | (1944) |
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| Satan Black | (1944) |
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| The Lost Giant | (1944) |
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| Violent Night | (1945) |
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| Strange Fish | (1945) |
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| The Ten Ton Snakes | (1945) |
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| Cargo Unknown | (1945) |
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| Rock Sinister | (1945) |
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| The Terrible Stork | (1945) |
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| King Joe Cay | (1945) |
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| The Wee Ones | (1945) |
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| Terror Takes 7 | (1945) |
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| The Thing That Pursued | (1945) |
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| Trouble on Parade | (1945) |
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| The Screaming Man | (1945) |
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| Measures for a Coffin | (1946) |
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| Se-Pah-Poo | (1946) |
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| Terror and the Lonely Widow | (1946) |
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| Five Fathoms Dead | (1946) |
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| Death is a Round Black Spot | (1946) |
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| Colors for Murder | (1946) |
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| Three Times a Corpse | (1946) |
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| The Devil is Jones | (1946) |
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| The Death Lady | (1947) |
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| Danger Lies East | (1947) |
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| No Light to Die By | (1947) |
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| The Monkey Suit | (1947) |
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| Let's Kill Ames | (1947) |
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| Once Over Lightly | (1947) |
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| I Died Yesterday | (1948) |
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| The Pure Evil | (1948) |
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| Terror Wears No Shoes | (1948) |
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| The Angry Canary | (1948) |
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| The Swooning Lady | (1948) |
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| The Green Master | (1949) |
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| Return From Cormoral | (1949) |
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| Up From Earth's Center | (1949) |
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| The Red Spider | (1979) |
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Publication Order of Doc Savage Collections
| The Lost Radio Scripts of Lester Dent | (2007) |
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Dead at the Take-Off | (1946) |
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| Lady to Kill | (1947) |
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| Lady Afraid | (1950) |
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| Lady So Silent | (1951) |
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| Cry at Dusk | (1952) |
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| Lady in Peril | (1959) |
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| Hades and Hocus Pocus | (1979) |
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| The Sinister Ray | (1987) |
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| Honey in His Mouth | (2009) |
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Publication Order of Lester Dent Library Collections
| Dead Men's Bones: The Air Adventure Stories of Lester Dent | (2009) |
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| The Skull Squadron: The Air War Stories of Lester Dent | (2009) |
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| Hell's Hoofprints: The Complete Western Trails Tales of Lester Dent | (2009) |
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| Fists of Fury: The Adventures of Curt Flagg | (2011) |
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| Terror, Inc.: The Weird Mysteries of Lent Dent | (2013) |
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Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Radio Western Adventures | (2002) |
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| Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales | (2006) |
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| The Weird Adventures of the Blond Adder | (2010) |
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| Hell in Boxes: The Exploits of Lynn Lash and Foster Fade | (2012) |
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Notes: Ost was re-published as The Magic Island for its Bantam re-release. Repel was re-titled The Deadly Dwarf for its Bantam re-release. According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic was shortened to One-Eyed Mystic for its Bantam re-issue. Violent Night was re-published as The Hate Genius by Bantam. The Spook Legion was also titled The Ghost Legion. Radio Western Adventures also includes a bonus story by Donald F. Glut.
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Lester Dent Synopsis: Radio Western Adventures is a collection of western tales that pays tribute to the radio cowboys and the great myths of the Old West. The collection includes Snare Savvy by Lester Dent and Who Really Was That Masked Man? by Donald F. Glut.
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