{"product_id":"talking-toad-book-lester-dent-9781618277381","title":"Talking Toad","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring his thirty year career, Lester Dent created several outstanding characters, starting with the immortal Doc Savage, but also including\u0026gt;\u003cem\u003eBlack Mask's\u003c\/em\u003e Oscar Sail, Genius Jones, and others. One of the most successful was the Gadget Man, who appeared exclusively in the pages of Street \u0026amp; Smith's\u0026gt;\u003cem\u003eCrime Busters\u003c\/em\u003e magazine between 1937 and 1939. After Doc Savage, the Gadget Man was the longest running Lester Dent series. And, like Doc Savage, it was a mixture of gadgets, mystery and screwball shenanigans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClick Rush is an inventor. But the ingenious crime-fighting gadgets he's invented are not wanted by police agencies, who consider them too outlandish and impractical. Enter Bufa. Who is Bufa? No one knows. Not even Rush. But when a papier-m ch  radio transceiver appears in his hotel room sitting on one half of a $10,000 bill and the voice emanating from the toad promises the other half if Rush uses his gadgets to solve a crime, the nearly broke inventor could hardly say no. The problem was that every time Rush solves a mystery, Bufa wants him to do it again. And again, and again. And he won't take no for an answer\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of eighteen screwy stories, the war of wits between the anonymous toad-shaped tormentor and the beleaguered inventor-turned-detective rages. Where will it all end? Not even Bufa knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first volume of Gadget Man stories-most never before reprinted-includes the introductory six stories. Many restored from the original manuscripts. Including a revealing Introduction by Will Murray.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50396535324945,"sku":"CIN1618277383G","price":28.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040187253009,"sku":"NIN9781618277381","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52677081628945,"sku":"NLS9781618277381","price":33.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53610969956625,"sku":"GOR013657826","price":29.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":54222145192209,"sku":"CIN1618277383VG","price":20.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1618277383.jpg?v=1750763599","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/talking-toad-book-lester-dent-9781618277381","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}