In this Shadow tale, men are being struck down by a strange sleeping sickness. They are as dead; yet they slumber in a mysterious condition from which they cannot be awakened. Hey, is this a new malady that's spreading through Manhattan? Is it a...
THE DEATH GIVER was originally published in the May 15, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
What was the meaning of the sudden, mysterious deaths that were striking ordinary citizens in New York's public places? No doubt they were the first...
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...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” October 15, 1933.
Death strikes, again and again. Mystery covers the affairs of the Wycliff household. Then The Shadow plays his hand against this scheme of...
Mickey Spillane’s latest mystery features a new and special type of hero — a man assigned a government mission because he is so outstanding a criminal. Morgan the Raider, so called because his audacity compares to that of the famous pirate of...
The greatest crime fighter of the forties returns!
In the roaring heart of the crucible, steel is made. In the raging flame of personal tragedy, men are sometimes forged into something more than human.
It was so with Dick Benson. He had been...
Johnny Jerome is a hard-nosed Private Detective in a city plagued with crime
and vice. When a simple missing person case suddenly escalates into a run in
with the local mob and a whole heap of trouble… And that’s when the...
Lew Archer #7 Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” January 1, 1934.
Great things impend. Nations convene and prepare for a tremendous task for world betterment. The stage is set for civilization’s proudest moment, and then come The Embassy...