Allen, Robert
Entry updated 16 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Allen Robert Dodd (1887-1947), whose only sf novel, Captain Gardiner of the International Police: A Secret Service Novel of the Future (1916), is set 60 years after World War One, when an International Federation (see Pax Aeronautica) has long governed most of the world but for the sinister East (see Yellow Peril), whose plots are foiled by the eponymous secret agent, who redeems himself in this fashion after having been broken under torture. [JC]
Allen Robert Dodd
born New York: 8 October 1887
died Norwalk, Connecticut: 8 July 1947
works
- Captain Gardiner of the International Police: A Secret Service Novel of the Future (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916) [hb/]
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