Case of the Exploding Men

by RAY CUMMINGS

Overview

PERIL PRESS presents:
Strange Detective Mysteries, November 1938
CASE OF THE EXPLODING MEN
A novelette of amazing murder at the crossroads of the world
A Detective Novel of Weird Mystery
by Ray Cummings

Half-mad with fear, Dugan & Dugan’s terrified client babbled his plea for protection . . . . Even as he spoke, there came that fearful, gruesome sound, and torn fragments of bleeding flesh flung red banners above the panicked thousands, while a city became a charnel house of ghastly, exploded corpses!

Even as a terrified client babbled his plea for protection, Dugan and Dugan, private detectives, heard that dread thunder of death—and torn fragments of bleeding flesh flung red banners above Broadway’s panicked thousands!

Chapter 1: The Frightened Man
Chapter 2: When Death Comes Creeping
Chapter 3: Terror Strikes at Night!
Chapter 4: The Strangled Voice
Chapter 5: Murder Visits in Shadow
Chapter 6: Secret of the Masked Madman

9000 Words

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013770621
Publisher:	Peril Press
Publication date:	01/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ray Cummings (byname of Raymond King Cummings; August 30, 1887 – January 23, 1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born in New York and died in Mount Vernon, New York.
Cummings worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name published in 1919 (where Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine)[1] and a sequel, The People of the Golden Atom, published in 1920. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.[citation needed]
During the 1940s, with his fiction career in eclipse, Cummings anonymously scripted comic book stories for Timely Comics, the predecessor to Marvel Comics. He recycled the plot of "The Girl in the Golden Atom," for a two-part Captain America tale, "Princess of the Atom." (Captain America #25 & 26) He also contributed to the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner, which his daughter Betty Cummings also wrote.
Ray Cummings wrote in 1922, "Time... is what keeps everything from happening at once", a sentence repeated by scientists such as C. J. Overbeck, and John Archibald Wheeler.