I swung the wet, flat money belt, enjoying the slap of it against my leg.
I had gone through a lot to get that belt. I had consorted with midgets and freaks. I had been lied to, framed, been offered the bribery of a beautiful but depraved...
It's the year 1906. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching -- not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task -- discover...
It's the year 1900. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson receive an urgent commission from the Prince Regnant of Bulgaria to come to Sofia. The Codex Zographensis, the most ancient and most sacred manuscript in the Old Bulgarian language has been stolen....
In Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle the great consulting detective comes up against the rich and powerful Kipling League. Dr Watson recounts the extraordinary events which took place on a spacious early summer day in the Sussex...
Mardi Gras Mystery was originally written for The Shadow Magazine in September 1935 by Street & Smith Publications.
A curious mystery arrives on the last day of carnival. A masked woman hands Andrew an ebony locked box and a key. Who is this...
THE CREEPER was originally published in the August 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
The hiding place of the Doyd millions was encoded upon a secret treasure map. One strange unknown being stood between the rightful heirs and their hidden...
THE MAN FROM SCOTLAND YARD was originally published in the August 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
This is the story of Inspector Eric Delka, the man from Scotland Yard. It's also the story of a spy ring out to steal secret plans for new...
As originally published in "The Shadow Magazine," July 15, 1935.
The Shadow trapped by mobland — while a master crook prepares to let loose Atoms of...