As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” November 1, 1933.
Matching wits against The Shadow, a vile criminal begins his campaign of evil. With amazing success, his plans go forward — but The Shadow never falters; crookedness never...
"I rammed my elbow back and felt teeth go under it and the back of my head mashed the guy's nose who was holding me." Mike Hammer is back, and after almost 20 years, he's as psychotically hard-boiled as ever. Here, there's a dead man in Hammer's...
A couple of missing wives — one a rich man's and one a poor man's — become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about...
To most Texans, Wolf Garnett was a notorious outlaw: a man to be feared. To Frank Gault, he was a relentless obsession: a man to be killed. Gault had spent more than a year tracking him, out to revenge the brutal, senseless murder of his young...
THE LIVING JOSS was originally published in the July 1, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
Kwa is the living joss. His name is never to be spoken by unbelievers. His sinister power reaches out from the confines of New York's Chinatown, to deal...
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...
THE LONDON CRIMES was originally published in the September 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
Thefts, frauds, robberies, murder — all for millions. The Harvester reaps what he has sown, but The Shadow comes along to check the harvest of...