THE RIBBON CLUES was originally published in the October 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
In this story, The Shadow gets to visit Chinatown, travel through the twisty underground passages, meet with Yat Soon, arbiter of Chinatown, and...
When Helga Rolfe flies into Nassau to join her elderly millionaire husband, Herman, she finds plenty of bad news awaiting her. Crippled, suspicious Herman has long suspected she’s been playing around since their marriage, and is proposing to write...
The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case.
When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her,...
THE LONDON CRIMES was originally published in the September 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
Thefts, frauds, robberies, murder — all for millions. The Harvester reaps what he has sown, but The Shadow comes along to check the harvest of...
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time --swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful...
Excursions and alarms! Johnny Fletcher (some might call him a con man) and Sam Gragg (he calls himself the “strongest man in the world”) are on the loose again!
The raffish pair are stony broke as usual and they take very temporary jobs as...
Here are those two old favorites, Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg, in their usual strategic position, up to their necks in the soup. The boys are back at that beloved caravanseric, the Forty-fifth Street Hotel, and appear likely to stay there for some...
The world’s most successful smuggler, Kek Huuygens, returns in this tale of blackmail, white flesh (slightly compromised), and money, money, money, by the author of the popular Captain José Da Silva novels.
What kind of suitcase is worth...
He found her in a quiet bar — a sulky-mouthed, awkward, green-eyed kid trying desperately to pick up a man. He taught her how to dress, to walk, to laugh, turned her into the kind of woman who makes every man reach into his pocket for...
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the...