The Carnival of Death, L. Ron Hubbard
The Carnival of Death, L. Ron Hubbard
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The Carnival of Death
A Case of Killer Drugs and Cold-blooded Murder on the Midway

Author: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrator: R.F. Daley, Jason Faunt

Unabridged: 2 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Galaxy Press

Published: 04/29/2024


Synopsis

Decadence and murder found on the dark side of the big city pales in comparison to the freak show found by undercover US narcotics agent Bob Clark in The Carnival of Death. Clark's investigation begins with cocaine and leads to cold-blooded murder — the discovery of one, and then another, headless corpse. Who is behind the slaughter? There are plenty of distractions — bright lights and beautiful girls — but Clark better find the murderers fast. Because the next head that rolls could be his own.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bobby

The two L. Ron Hubbard pulp stories from the 1930s in this collection are quite fun. The first has Detective Bob Clark working undercover at Shreve’s Mammoth Carnival to expose a dope ring. What he finds is a carnival barker’s headless corpse, and discovers that some headhunters from one of the carn......more

Goodreads review by Craig

This book collects two stories from the early part of Hubbard's pulp career, the title story from the November, 1934, issue of Popular Detective magazine, and The Death Flyer from the April, 1936, issue of Mystery Novels Magazine. I didn't much care for the badly-dated The Carnival of Death, which i......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

This is about a series of murders at a carnival. Fortunately, a private detective is there, hoping to solve a reported dope smuggling case. The corpses were beheaded and there are lots of action sequences (including ones at a haunted house and mirror maze). This is probably my least favorite of the H......more

Goodreads review by C.

Two stories: "Carnival of Death" and "The Death Flyer." Both are wildly different examples of pulp fiction. The first is a quick-and-dirty two-fisted detective story, written fast and on the cheap with all the exclamation points, plot holes, and questionable sentiments one might expect from pulp of......more

Goodreads review by Bruce

L. Ron Hubbard wrote hundreds of these potboilers. Not great literature, by any means, they are time capsules of American idioms of the 1930's and 40's. They're the literary equivalent of WAMU's Big Broadcast on Sunday evenings, loaded with tough-guy jargon and purple prose. I like them, and they ar......more