As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” October 15, 1934.
They were not dead — they were asleep, these victims of a new malady — or of the plans of some master crook who brought the death...
When handsome, hard-boiled Ed Barlow, a Florida reporter, got the tip-off on an insidious gang of criminals that preyed on a certain kind of woman, he knew he was in for a gun-barrel full of excitement — and he liked it.
Against a background...