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...
The Road of Crime. It leads through various ways - but in the end it comes to The Shadow, creature of justice and vengeance!
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An ex-con tries to reform his life with some unseen help from The...
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Classic novelette about crime, murder, lurid location, sleazy detectives.
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Hell's lid blew off when Detective Nason found his old buddy, Patrolman Donigan, had been shot in the back. But doom's worst stroke was to discover...