Tired of getting no respect at the big P.I. firm where she’s worked for years, Dix Dodd has hung out her own shingle at the ripe age of 40. There are plenty of cheating husbands to go around, and Dix has a knack for busting them. Problem is, it...
Following his “resurrection walk” and quest for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against Tidalwaiv, an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it...
The client had an extraordinary air of assurance about her — one could almost say a queenly air.
There was no doubt that she was in some sort of jam, which had started years before when she had won a beauty contest. The question was, why was...
In his spirited Introduction to a topnotch collection of Great American Detective Stories, Anthony Boucher says: “The detective short story belongs to us. It started in America and it started off magnificently. In five stories, Edgar Allan Poe...
THE CHINESE TAPESTRY was originally published in the November 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
A dead man who lives, guards the secret of the Chinese tapestry. And The Shadow travels to San Francisco to make sure the right person receives...
THE CREEPER was originally published in the August 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
The hiding place of the Doyd millions was encoded upon a secret treasure map. One strange unknown being stood between the rightful heirs and their hidden...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 15, 1935.
Slow ponderous notes, ringing out a death knell, they toll forth from the old bell-tower as Bells of...
She’s always followed orders. Now she wants out. The price of freedom may be her life.
Moscow, 1986. Soviet spy Sofiya Litvinova longs to end her days exclusively working sexpionage missions. But when she’s dispatched to Stockholm to deploy...