UCHRONIC TALES
The Horn
By Peter Miller
Uchronic Press
58 pages
The Horn by Peter Miller is his second little novella
published in digest form and featuring American Insurance Investigator Clark
Tyler. Using small sized text in only
fifty-pages, “The Horn” tells a very speedy pulp actioner that is easily read
in one sitting.
It is 1932 in Los
Angeles and someone has stolen a priceless ancient
artifact from a museum. Tyler
is brought in to investigate. It turns
out the object taken might well be Gabriel’s Horn and should it be played could
produced unimaginable devastation to the area in which it is sounded. As soon as Tyler
pieces this unbelievable story together, he then learns the most likely
culprits are Nazi spies who intend to “blow” the horn at the Los Angeles
Olympic Games in the hopes of killing thousands and discrediting America
at the same time.
This short thriller moves rapidly and is a real page
turner. Tyler, whom we last saw in the
first Uchronic digest, “The Zeppelin,” is a likeable hero and I hope Miller has
lots more of these mini pulps coming our way.
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