{"product_id":"talking-toad","title":"Talking Toad: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring his thirty year career, Lester Dent created several outstanding characters, starting with the immortal Doc Savage, but also including \u003cem\u003eBlack Mask's\u003c\/em\u003e Oscar Sail, Genius Jones, and others. One of the most successful was the Gadget Man, who appeared exclusively in the pages of Street \u0026amp; Smith's \u003cem\u003eCrime Busters\u003c\/em\u003e magazine between 1937 and 1939. After Doc Savage, the Gadget Man was the longest running Lester Dent series. And, like Doc Savage, it was a mixture of gadgets, mystery and screwball shenanigans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClick Rush is an inventor. But the ingenious crime-fighting gadgets he's invented are not wanted by police agencies, who consider them too outlandish and impractical. Enter Bufa. Who is Bufa? No one knows. Not even Rush. But when a papier-mâché radio transceiver appears in his hotel room sitting on one half of a $10,000 bill and the voice emanating from the toad promises the other half if Rush uses his gadgets to solve a crime, the nearly broke inventor could hardly say no. The problem was that every time Rush solves a mystery, Bufa wants him to do it again. And again, and again. And he won't take no for an answer!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of eighteen screwy stories, the war of wits between the anonymous toad-shaped tormentor and the beleaguered inventor-turned-detective rages. Where will it all end? Not even Bufa knows....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first volume of Gadget Man stories-most never before reprinted-includes the introductory six stories. Many restored from the original manuscripts. Including a revealing Introduction by Will Murray.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46447542698194,"sku":"9781618277381","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_aae82f29-9cde-4eb2-b875-005ab53b94cb.jpg?v=1762875525","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/talking-toad","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}