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Carnes is chief of a sector of the Secret Service dealing with counterfeiting, though in other stories this changes.

And Bird seems important enough that he can call upon senior government officials during some of their adventures, rather than relying on Carnes. This is not your stereotypical bookish scientist. He is a large, six-foot man with massive shoulders and chest, and is more a man of action than Carnes, and sometimes pushing him aside. Bird is a researcher at the Bureau of Standards, what is today called the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in the area of chemistry and physics. Bird and Operative Carnes are not your typical pair. Yes, the science is sometimes hokey, but the characters make the stories more interesting.ĭr. Usually these threats are from communists or Russian agents. These are all interesting science-based mysteries and threats, many times dealing with threats to the U.S. And a couple of those don’t appear to have been reprinted. It does not have the first two stories, nor the last. “Vanishing Gold” ( Wonder Stories, May 1932)Īs noted, the collection has only 11 of the 14 stories.“The Great Drought” ( Astounding Stories, May 1932).“Poisoned Air” ( Astounding Stories, March 1932).“The Solar Magnet” ( Astounding Stories, October 1931).“The Port of Missing Planes” ( Astounding Stories, August 1931).“When Caverns Yawned” ( Astounding Stories, May 1931).“The Black Lamp” ( Astounding Stories, February 1931).“The Sea Terror” ( Astounding Stories, December 1930).“Stolen Brains” ( Astounding Stories, March 1930).“The Ray of Madness” ( Astounding Stories, April 1930).“Cold Light” ( Astounding Stories, March 1930).“The Thief of Time” ( Astounding Stories, February 1930).“The Radio Robbery” ( Amazing Stories, February 1930).“The Cave of Horror” ( Astounding Stories, January 1930).Bird published by Resurrected Press in 2010. Bird stories, 11 of the 14 stories, The Astounding Adventures of Dr. I obtain a recent collection of most of the Dr. Bird and Secret Service Operative Carnes. His SF appeared in Astounding and Amazing Stories, and his major series featured Dr. He briefly wrote science fiction and some other pulp fiction on the side from 1929 to 1933, before moving to children’s fiction. He was an ordinance office and military chemist, worked up from captain to colonel, and used his rank with some of his fiction. Meek” for his published works, when I reviewed his The Drums of Tapajos.