The Spider's Reward

By Johnston McCulley and John Betancourt

The Spider's Reward is the final volume in The Spider mystery series, by Johnston McCulley, creator of Zorro.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Aug 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781479463527

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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