Mystery Magazine Ellery Queen is into Pulp Fiction

The folks at Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen, have read two L. Ron Hubbard novels and evidently had a lot of fun reading them. Here is what they say:

"Two novellas (The Iron Duke & The Cheek-Chalker), first published in the magazine Five-Novels (in 1940 and 1947 respectively), reiterate the case for Hubbard as one of the great pulp writers, with colorful prose, lively action writing, exotic locales, fresh variations on standard characters and situations, and well-constructed plots. In Iron Duke, Blacky Lee, fleeing the Nazis with his less adventurous side-kick, impersonates the archduke of a Balkan country coveted by the Communists, while in Chee-Chalker (the term denotes a newcomer to Alaska), FBI agent Bill Norton is in Ketchikan to look for his vanished boss and thwart a heroin ring. Both find romance along with derring-do. As with other Hubbard volumes from this publisher, the packaging (including bright cover art, interior illustrations, glossary, and added information on the author) is excellent."