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...
When handsome, hard-boiled Ed Barlow, a Florida reporter, got the tip-off on an insidious gang of criminals that preyed on a certain kind of woman, he knew he was in for a gun-barrel full of excitement — and he liked it.
Against a background...
A new collection of seven short stories and an original introduction by one of the genre’s most prolific writers and editors. Includes stories about the Nameless...
In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective.
If the truth’s in the shadows, get...
CROOKS GO STRAIGHT was originally published in the March 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
How many crooks go straight? Two crooks, to be exact. This story follows the reformed lives of two ex-crooks, Steve Zurk and Jack Targon. Steve Zurk...
THE DARK DEATH was originally published in the February 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
"Beware, dark men! Doom awaits you! That is the message in the crystal." Or so warns Cuyler Willington. And when he says "dark men" he refers not to...
Kidnapping had become a national pastime in Italy — but was there another reason why billionaire Carlo Grandi put his beautiful daughter behind an electric fence, guarded by killers dogs and two fast shooting guards? Mike Frost, always on the...
Chicago, 1947. Nathan Heller, formerly of the United States Marines, currently head of the A-1 Detective Agency, is settling happily into post-war suburban prosperity in the company of his lovely, pregnant wife. But when a client’s child turns up...