The Complete Cabalistic Cases of Semi Dual, the Occult Detector, Volume 1: 1912

by John Ulrich Giesy, Junius B. Smith, Garyn G. Roberts (Introduction)

One of Pulpdom’s earliest occult detectives returns! Running for over twenty years in the pages of The Cavalier, All-Story Weekly, The People’s Magazine, Top Notch, and Argosy, among others, these tales have never been reprinted until now. Volume 1 contains the first three tales of Prince Abdul Omar AKA Semi Dual, all from 1912: “The Occult Detector,” “The Significance of the High ‘D’,” and “The Wistaria Scarf.” This premiere collection includes an all-new introduction by Garyn Roberts, Ph.D.

Genres: Occult Detective, Pulp

274 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2013

About the author

John Ulrich Giesy (J.U. Giesy) was an American physician, novelist, an author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of his stories.