THE THIRD SKULL was originally published in the May 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
The third skull holds the secret to immense wealth: the hidden fortune of Hildrew Parchell. Now that the old miser has died, someone is out to uncover...
James Hadley Chase gives us a tough, hard-boiled story crammed with action, grotesque situations, and weird characters. Not a word is wasted. From the first page to the last you are involved in a sinister and compelling situation, that will...
'An exciting...entertaining first novel' Sunday Telegraph
'One of the best crime debuts for years' Yorkshire Post
A self-defence expert with a motorbike and an attitude, Charlie Fox doesn't need to go looking for trouble. It generally finds her....
Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream.
Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved. When she...
The guns, the punks, the whores were dying too fast. A wise guy was speeding up the underworld’s death rate with a .38 Special.
Lt. Joe Scanlon manhunts the tawdry dives and deadly alleys of the slum jungle... his cover, a gorgeous lady cop...
The book consisted of the following stories, labelled as "Part One", "Part Two", and "Part Three".
The Inland Revenue: Simon finds himself up against an undefeatable enemy — the taxman — when Inland Revenue pursues him for back taxes after...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” December 1, 1935.
Through brightly lighted boulevards and dark byways of Paris moves The Shadow, playing the strangest role of his career in counteracting the movements of the international...
Three days out of prison and trying to stay on the right side of the law, Harry Healy doesn’t really want to get involved with Manfred Pfiser’s drug deals. But he needs the money – so he agrees to make one simple delivery.
Simple, that...
Reckless Harry Griffin was an ex-pilot on the skids. But he had an ingenious scheme for hijacking a plane and heisting 3 million dollars worth of diamonds. Another hardfisted mystery by the author of NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS...
Men of enormous wealth were being found dead under strange circumstances. The Shadow sensed a devilish plot and entered into a duel of wits with the most brilliant and diabolical doctor in the world — a man so evil no crime was beyond...