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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...brilliant young U. S. scientist is searching for a vanished physicist, his former professor. But when he locates him, the professor denies his identity, frames his onetime protege to get him out of the way. Chief of the shady facts about the professor is that his real name is MacMichael, that he lives in a Mojave Desert hideout called Barstow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Whopper | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Angeles, a nervy adventurer is investigating the mysterious murder of his brother, a reporter. Clues lead dangerously to the Brotherhood of the Judgment, a fanatical sect headed by sinister Father John, whose real name is MacMichael. Sect headquarters are in Barstow. There arrive the architect, the scientist and the adventurer. During the next 187 pages, at the MacMichael desert palace, the three young men are shot at, kidnapped, finally escape an awful doom, not very much to a reader's relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Whopper | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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