"A good time. Recommend it to all who like old western movies and serials too." -The Adventure Continues Blog
In this homage to the B-movie westerns and movie serials of yore, Hollywood Cowboy Detectives Curly Woods, Hoot Gibson and Ken Maynard join forces with action star "Crash" Corrigan and radio's Mercury Theatre stars Orson Welles and Ray Collins. Together the team pool their unique talents to entertain children, battle Nazi zombies, and discover the identity of a diabolical assassin, while fighting their mutual desire to strangle each other ? on a Hollywood junket in a celebrity and danger filled bus from southern California to the Golden Gate. Their fellow passengers include a roster of other actors and actresses, a radio announcer, a mute sound- effects specialist, a photographer, G-men, plus a talentless reporter and a psychic (who are killed by the bites of a king cobra). The action begins when fascist saboteurs place bounties on the heads of Curly, Hoot and Ken. From there the story hurtles pell-mell to San Francisco ? or bust! And in a story within the story, the author tips his hat to one of the great old-time radio program, The Shadow, which Welles starred in during the mid-1930s.
Bonus HCD short story: The Mystery of The Man in the Mist.
It is the mid-1930s and Curly Woods, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and other Hollywood Cowboy Detectives characters, along with radio listeners across America, tune in every Wednesday night to hear the wildly popular adventures of The Man of the Mist, a crime-fighter with hypnotic powers who becomes almost invisible in the dark.
From the opening paragraph: "Radio listeners are under the impression that the amazing detective with hypnotic powers is a fictional character. This manuscript should set the record straight and correct that misperception. There is a real Man of the Mist. All of the characters created on the radio program are based on real people who, for their own safety, are referred to by fictitious names. On a monthly basis, program writers meet with him and his spunky secretary, "Moxie," to listen to reports on their latest adventures and transcribe them for broadcast. The following story is true and should be considered a warning to all who think they can defeat law and justice.?
