Travis and Meyer go to Mexico to find out what kind of a life the dead daughter of a friend of Meyer's had been having down there with her dropped-out friends. The search takes them to Oaxaca where a hellish version of a hippie underculture has...
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Lew Archer #3 The third Lew Archer mystery, in which a missing-persons search takes him "through slum alleys to the luxury of a Palm Springs resort, to a San Francisco drug-peddler's shabby room. Some of the people were dead when he reached them....
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
THE SHADOW KNOWS. But no one knows THE SHADOW. Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the man in black is a legend to those who have felt his remorseless hand: The Underworld. One step outside the law and...
He was a big strapping fellow around thirty, broad and well-built, but far from muscular; soft, just this side of fat.
“Hello, Baby,” he said. “You one of her boy friends?”
“Go jump in a lake,” I said. “Jump into two if one...
Murder of a Genius
When a mechanical genius is murdered at the moment of his greatest invention, THE SHADOW decodes a plan of linked deaths and traps a master killer in a bizarre and brilliant intrigue…
As originally published in “The...
One of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they die violently. FROM THE PUBLISHER The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly...
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...
Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler’s craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast. When...
Short story collection
"Pick-up on Noon Street" "Smart-Aleck Kill" "Guns at Cyrano's" "Nevada...
In this Shadow tale, men are being struck down by a strange sleeping sickness. They are as dead; yet they slumber in a mysterious condition from which they cannot be awakened. Hey, is this a new malady that's spreading through Manhattan? Is it a...