In this Shadow tale, men are being struck down by a strange sleeping sickness. They are as dead; yet they slumber in a mysterious condition from which they cannot be awakened. Hey, is this a new malady that's spreading through Manhattan? Is it a...
Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned, so when they got wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her she agrees to play her part in the sting which would see both men...
With short, fast-paced, alternating point-of-view chapters, The Death Code starts several weeks after The Murder Complex ended. Zephyr keeps the secret about Meadow close—that if she dies, The Murder Complex will be destroyed, too. Meadow,...
THE DEATH GIVER was originally published in the May 15, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
What was the meaning of the sudden, mysterious deaths that were striking ordinary citizens in New York's public places? No doubt they were the first...
THE DEATH STRAIN… is a lethal virus for which there is no antidote and which kills in a hideous, painful way.
THE DEATH STRAIN… becomes a paralyzing threat to the world in the hands of the maddened genius who had developed it for America's...
Men of enormous wealth were being found dead under strange circumstances. The Shadow sensed a devilish plot and entered into a duel of wits with the most brilliant and diabolical doctor in the world — a man so evil no crime was beyond...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” October 15, 1933.
Death strikes, again and again. Mystery covers the affairs of the Wycliff household. Then The Shadow plays his hand against this scheme of...
While en route to visit relatives, Hermione Lestrange falls into company with three agreeable women who are spending their autumn holiday in a forest cabin. Out for a drive, the group discovers a battered bicycle by the side of the road, and...