Jerry Stevens, an out-of-work bit-part movie actor - with several lousy Westerns to his credit - is offered a job at one thousand dollars a day to impersonate John Merril Ferguson, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. It is...
There is a criminal empire being run by a mad genius out of San Francisco's Chinatown. Nobody knows who they are or when they will strike again. Only one man can bring down the vicious criminal operations. The Shadow!
As originally published in...
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis. FROM THE PUBLISHER Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” April 1, 1934.
The famed might of The Shadow seemed to be on the wane, giving way to a new and more destructive warrior — The...
American gambler Nick Cain (Raft) arrives at the town of San Paola, and befriends shoe-shine boy Toni. He discovers he has been framed for the murder of a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly to a village, leaving her to hide out....
This is the story of Terry Regan, radio and T.V. salesman, who falls in love with Gilda, the wife of a hard drinking bully who spends his life in a wheel-chair. Because of Gilda’s fatal fascination, Regan decides to get rid of her husband so that...
It’s the story of Ben Grace, a small-time chiseler in the rackets – not crooked, not straight, just in between – who, full of grievances, makes the most of his inside information as Sol Caspar’s chauffeur to aid and abet the opposing...