 Lester Bernard Dent was born in La Plata, Missouri. In 1923, he graduated from La Plata High School. He attended Chillicothe Business College where he learned telegraphy. In 1925, Dent married Norma Gerling and in 1931 the couple moved to New York City, where Dent began writing detective and adventure stories. He wrote many 'Doc Savage' stories under the house name of Kenneth Robeson. In addition to the 'Doc Savage' stories, he wrote numerous western, air-war, detective and mystery stories. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) Dead at the Take-Off (Also published as: High Stakes [1953]) | 1946 |
| 2) Lady to Kill | 1946 |
| 3) Lady Afraid | 1948 |
| 4) Lady So Silent | 1951 |
| 5) Cry at Dusk | 1952 |
| 6) Lady in Peril | 1959 |
| 7) Hades and Hocus-Pocus (novelets) | 1979 |
| 8) The Sinister Ray (novelets) | 1987 |
| 9) Honey in His Mouth | 2009 |
| As 'Kenneth Robeson' | |
| 1) The Man of Bronze | 1933 |
| 2) The Land of Terror | 1933 |
| 3) Quest of the Spider | 1933 |
| 4) The Polar Treasure | 1933 |
| 5) Pirate of the Pacific | 1933 |
| 6) The Red Skull | 1933 |
| 7) The Lost Oasis | 1933 |
| 8) The Sargasso Ogre | 1933 |
| 9) The Czar of Fear | 1933 |
| 10) The Phantom City | 1933 |
| 11) Brand of the Werewolf | 1934 |
| 12) The Man Who Shook the Earth | 1934 |
| 13) Meteor Menace | 1934 |
| 14) The Monsters | 1934 |
| 15) The Mystery on the Snow | 1934 |
| 16) The King Maker (with Harold A. Davis) | 1934 |
| 17) The Thousand-Headed Man | 1934 |
| 18) The Squeaking Goblin | 1934 |
| 19) Fear Cay | 1934 |
| 20) Death in Silver | 1934 |
| 21) The Sea Magician | 1934 |
| 22) The Annihilist | 1934 |
| 23) The Mystic Mullah (with Richard Sale) | 1935 |
| 24) Red Snow | 1935 |
| 25) Land of Always-Night (with W. Ryerson Johnson) | 1935 |
| 26) The Spook Legion | 1935 |
| 27) The Secret in the Sky | 1935 |
| 28) The Roar Devil | 1935 |
| 29) Quest of Qui | 1935 |
| 30) Spook Hole | 1935 |
| 31) The Maji (with J. Allan Dunn) | 1935 |
| 32) Dust of Death (with Harold A. Davis) | 1935 |
| 33) The Fantastic Island (with W. Ryerson Johnson) | 1935 |
| 34) Mystery Under the Sea | 1936 |
| 35) The Metal Master | 1936 |
| 36) The Seven Agate Devils (with Martin E. Baker) | 1936 |
| 37) The Midas Man | 1936 |
| 38) The South Pole Terror | 1936 |
| 39) Resurrection Day | 1936 |
| 40) The Vanisher | 1936 |
| 41) The Derrick Devil | 1937 |
| 42) The Mental Wizard | 1937 |
| 43) The Terror in the Navy | 1937 |
| 44) The Land of Fear (with Harold A. Davis) | 1937 |
| 45) Ost / The Magic Island | 1937 |
| 46) The Feathered Octopus | 1937 |
| 47) Repel / The Deadly Dwarf | 1937 |
| 48) The Sea Angel | 1937 |
| 49) The Golden Peril (with Harold A. Davis) | 1937 |
| 50) The Living-Fire Menace / The Living Fire Menace (with Harold A. Davis) | 1938 |
| 51) The Mountain Monster (with Harold A. Davis) | 1938 |
| 52) Devil on the Moon | 1938 |
| 53) The Pirate’s Ghost | 1938 |
| 54) The Motion Menace (with W. Ryerson Johnson) | 1938 |
| 55) The Submarine Mystery | 1938 |
| 56) The Giggling Ghosts | 1938 |
| 57) Fortress of Solitude | 1938 |
| 58) The Devil Genghis | 1938 |
| 59) Mad Mesa | 1939 |
| 60) The Yellow Cloud (with Evelyn Coulson) | 1939 |
| 61) The Freckled Shark | 1939 |
| 62) World's Fair Goblin (with William G. Bogart) | 1939 |
| 63) The Gold Ogre | 1939 |
| 64) The Flaming Falcons | 1939 |
| 65) Poison Island | 1939 |
| 66) The Stone Man | 1939 |
| 67) Hex (with William G. Bogart) | 1939 |
| 68) The Dagger in the Sky | 1939 |
| 69) The Other World | 1940 |
| 70) The Angry Ghost (with William G. Bogart) | 1940 |
| 71) The Spotted Men (with William G. Bogart) | 1940 |
| 72) The Evil Gnome | 1940 |
| 73) The Boss of Terror | 1940 |
| 74) The Awful Egg | 1940 |
| 75) The Purple Dragon (with Harold A. Davis) | 1940 |
| 76) The Men Vanished | 1940 |
| 77) The All-White Elf | 1941 |
| 78) The Golden Man | 1941 |
| 79) The Pink Lady | 1941 |
| 80) The Green Eagle | 1941 |
| 81) Mystery Island | 1941 |
| 82) Birds of Death | 1941 |
| 83) The Invisible Box Murders / The Invisible-Box Murders | 1941 |
| 84) Peril in the North | 1941 |
| 85) Men of Fear (with Evelyn Coulson) | 1942 |
| 86) The Too-Wise Owl | 1942 |
| 87) The Magic Forest (with William G. Bogart) | 1942 |
| 88) Pirate Isle | 1942 |
| 89) The Speaking Stone | 1942 |
| 90) The Man Who Fell Up | 1942 |
| 91) The Three Wild Men | 1942 |
| 92) The Fiery Menace | 1942 |
| 93) The Laugh of Death | 1942 |
| 94) They Died Twice | 1942 |
| 95) The Devil's Black Rock | 1942 |
| 96) The Time Terror | 1943 |
| 97) Waves of Death | 1943 |
| 98) The Black, Black Witch | 1943 |
| 99) The King of Terror | 1943 |
| 100) The Talking Devil | 1943 |
| 101) The Running Skeletons | 1943 |
| 102) Mystery on Happy Bones | 1943 |
| 103) The Mental Monster | 1943 |
| 104) Hell Below | 1943 |
| 105) The Goblins | 1943 |
| 106) The Secret of the Su | 1943 |
| 107) The Spook of Grandpa Eben | 1943 |
| 108) According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic / One-Eyed Mystic | 1944 |
| 109) Death Had Yellow Eyes | 1944 |
| 110) The Derelict of Skull Shoal | 1944 |
| 111) The Whisker of Hercules | 1944 |
| 112) The Three Devils | 1944 |
| 113) The Pharoah's Ghost / The Pharaoh's Ghost | 1944 |
| 114) The Man Who Was Scared | 1944 |
| 115) The Shape of Terror | 1944 |
| 116) Weird Valley | 1944 |
| 117) Jiu San | 1944 |
| 118) Satan Black | 1944 |
| 119) The Lost Giant | 1944 |
| 120) Violent Night / The Hate Genius | 1945 |
| 121) Strange Fish | 1945 |
| 122) The Ten Ton Snakes | 1945 |
| 123) Cargo Unknown | 1945 |
| 124) Rock Sinister | 1945 |
| 125) The Terrible Stork | 1945 |
| 126) King Joe Cay | 1945 |
| 127) The Wee Ones | 1945 |
| 128) Terror Takes 7 | 1945 |
| 129) The Thing That Pursued | 1945 |
| 130) Trouble on Parade | 1945 |
| 131) The Screaming Man | 1945 |
| 132) Measures for a Coffin | 1946 |
| 133) Se- Pah-Poo | 1946 |
| 134) Terror and the Lonely Widow | 1946 |
| 135) Five Fathoms Dead | 1946 |
| 136) Death Is a Round Black Spot | 1946 |
| 137) Colors for Murder | 1946 |
| 138) Fire and Ice (with William G. Bogart) | 1946 |
| 139) Three Times a Corpse | 1946 |
| 140) The Exploding Lake (with Harold A. Davis) | 1946 |
| 141) Death in Little Houses (with William G. Bogart) | 1946 |
| 142) The Devil Is Jones | 1946 |
| 143) Danger Lies East | 1947 |
| 144) No Light to Die By | 1947 |
| 145) The Monkey Suit | 1947 |
| 146) Let's Kill Ames | 1947 |
| 147) Once Over Lightly | 1947 |
| 148) I Died Yesterday | 1948 |
| 149) The Pure Evil | 1948 |
| 150) Terror Wears No Shoes | 1948 |
| 151) The Angry Canary | 1948 |
| 152) The Swooning Lady | 1948 |
| 153) The Green Master | 1948 |
| 154) Return from Cormoral | 1949 |
| 155) Up from Earth's Center | 1949 |
| 156) The Red Spider (Original Title: In Hell, Madonna) | 1979 |
| 157) Python Isle (with Will Murray) | 1990 |
| 158) White Eyes (with Will Murray) | 1992 |
| 159) The Frightened Fish (with Will Murray) | 1992 |
| 160) The Jade Ogre (with Will Murray) | 1992 |
| 161) Flight Into Fear (with Will Murray) | 1993 |
| 162) The Whistling Wraith (with Will Murray) | 1993 |
| 163) The Forgotten Realm (with Will Murray) | 1993 |
| 164) The Desert Demons (with Will Murray) | 2011 |
| 165) Horror in Gold (with Will Murray) | 2011 |
| 166) The Infernal Buddha (with Will Murray) | 2012 |
| 167) Death's Dark Domain (with Will Murray) | 2012 |
| 168) The Miracle Menace (with Will Murray) | 2013 |
| 169) Phantom Lagoon (with Will Murray) | 2013 |
| 170) The Ice Genius (with Will Murray) | 2014 |
| 171) The Sinister Shadow (with Will Murray) | 2015 |
| 172) The Secret of Satan's Spine (with Will Murray) | 2015 |
| 173) Glare of the Gorgon (with Will Murray) | 2016 |
| 174) Empire of Doom (with Will Murray) | 2017 |
| 175) Mr. Calamity (with Will Murray) | 2018 |
| 176) The Valley of Eternity (with Will Murray) | 2018 |
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