The Spider Strain

By Johnston McCulley

When a supercriminal's assistant wants to leave the organization and marry the boss's daughter, the Spider sets him two tasks. Can he accomplish the first? A classic pulp mystery from the creator of Zorror, "The Spider Strain" originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine in 1918!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Oct 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781479435586

Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) was an American novelist and short story writer. Born and raised in Illinois, McCulley began his career with The Police Gazette as a police reporter. During World War I, he served as a public affairs author for the United States Army. After the war, he began writing stories for such pulp magazines as Argosy and All-Story Weekly. His novel The Curse of Capistrano, serialized in 1919, marked the first appearance in print of his beloved character Zorro, a masked vigilante fighting on behalf of California’s Chicano and indigenous populations. Spawning countless adaptations for film and television, Zorro made McCulley’s name as a leading popular fiction writer of the early twentieth century.

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