Butterbean knew she wasn’t always a good dog. Still, she’d never considered herself a BAD dog—until the morning that her owner, Mrs. Food, fell in the hallway. Admittedly the tile was slipperier than usual, mostly because Butterbean had just...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 15, 1934.
A dying convict gasps a last message to his cellmate — a message which brings about a strange change in the events of a thriving community. The Shadow, master of crime...
Parker knew the score was dangerous from the moment he first heard of it. A cowboy caper. Still, he listened. It was Parker’s way of life to buck the odds, but when the odds grew too long a cool thief might pass — unless he saw a way they could...
When the Brazilian liner Porto Alegre docked in Barbados in 1956, the passengers reveled in the gay carnival-time hysteria ashore, while the few officers left aboard invited a four-man calypso band to liven up the dull shipboard routine. But the...
In an evening of dense London fog, when pedestrians groped helplessly through the streets, a crime was committed. One person, however, knew his way—a blind match-seller guiding a pleasant-voiced stranger. But he did not dream that he was leading...