De Maupassant once wrote: “There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing.”
The Bride Wore Black offers grim and absorbing proof of that idea.
Four men are murdered. Each time a woman they have never known comes into their...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” June 1, 1935.
With the relentlessness of the ticking of a clock, murder struck every hour — until it was time for The Shadow to...
The blind man was unwittingly enmeshed in the slimy schemes of a ruthless dope ring. How could he clear his name, with no aid except that of the faithful canine companion who was his “seeing eye,” when he was up against a sinister set-up that...
Curiosity is always a killer for
former police officer Dixie
Hemingway. Even a trip to pick
up her parrot at the
veterinarian's office is bound to
turn up something... curious. ..and the teenager Dixie meets
in the waiting room is no
exception. Jaz,...
(Book #1)-"Where's My Son?"What would you do if your son went missing? How far would you go to get him back?***Michael Barton comes home to find his infant son gone. There is no trace of the kidnappers, and the police have no leads. Michael is...
Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse...
Arly (aka Ariel) Hanks, Chief of Police of Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), has been known to break out in hives just thinking about Manhattan. Her idea of a good time is running a speed trap at the edge of town, stomping around the ridge looking...
When we found Perry Mason, we called SEVEN! When we met the “D.A.” — Douglas Selby — we shouted ELEVEN! They’re both naturals — and though Perry Mason does not take part in this novel, it marks the appearance of Erle Stanley Gardner’s...
Practically everybody will remember Bingo and Handsome, partners in the International Foto, Motion Picture and Television Corporation of America (or, to put it more bluntly, street photographers), whose earlier adventures were related in The Sunday...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” July 1, 1935.
From China came the call for aid; yet The Shadow heeded it, and penetrated the heart of New York’s Chinatown as he sought the Fate...