Kirjahaku

Scientist and world-saving explorer Doctor Ardan was created in 1928 by French author Guy d'Armen in the pages of the magazine L'Intr pide five years before Doc Savage. In The Hurricane Master (1931), Doc Ardan is asked to investigate mysterious hurricanes that disturb maritime traffic in the French Pacific. He is able to expose and defeat the science pirate Krakatax, the master of Hurricane Island, and rescue the daughter of American billionaire William Dorgan, with the help of an operative from the Continental Detective Agency and flying ace Phineas Pinkham.In The Secret of Frigidopolis (1933), Doc Ardan receives a mysterious inheritance from a long-lost uncle and goes looking for a futuristic city hidden in the icy wastes of Patagonia.These two new ground-breaking SF adventures in this popular French series have been translated and adapted by Michael Shreve.

In the summer of 1921, young doctor Francis Ardan and his father are exploring the most remote regions of Upper Siam (now Thailand), when they encounter a dying man whose skin is the color of jade. His revelations lead the intrepid father-and-son team to discover the existence of Inramonda, a secret, underground realm ruled by an immortal tyrant known as His Eternal Wisdom, whose subjects are a race of artificially created "Jade Men." He plots to seize power in Southeast Asia. Scientist and world-saving explorer Doctor Ardan was created in 1928, five years before Doc Savage, by French author Guy d'Armen. The Fall of Inramonda, originally published in 1935, has been adapted by the award-winning team of Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier. The book also includes a Doc Ardan novella by renowned Doctor Who author John Peel.