Fifteen stories and one novel — hard-boiled classics by an undisputed master.
Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain’s stories are classics of his...
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As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” February 1, 1935.
International crooks, scheming to make millions by stealing the plans of the Navy Department’s mystery submarine, come up against The Shadow in a battle of...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” November 15, 1935.
Sinuous coils of crime envelop The Shadow as he battles The Python. But within the folds of a black cloak is a body with a strength to crush the serpent’s...
MacDonald apparently loathes the Hollywood scene, and he creates some characters to show us why. (A couple of times during the series Travis reels off a list of things he has no use for, and "actresses" are included.) There's a new character...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” June 1, 1933.
Lamont Cranston (one of The Shadow's identities — indeed, the best known — a "wealthy young man about town") first meets Commissioner Weston, setting up the friendship that...
The Shadow lives by darkness, gliding through the waiting night unseen, a mocking laugh his only calling card. None who have trafficked in crime will ever forget him. The may sneer at the law…but not at The Shadow. Each generation of evil breeds a...
THE RIBBON CLUES was originally published in the October 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
In this story, The Shadow gets to visit Chinatown, travel through the twisty underground passages, meet with Yat Soon, arbiter of Chinatown, and...
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...
The lofty towers of the Kremlin loomed like spectral spires against the darkened sky. Senov — master spider in a web of espionage — was about to ensnare America in the mose nefarious deal of all time: behind the guise of a trade detante, he and...
The book, which picks up soon after the events of the previous full-length novel, Getaway, consists of the following stories (designated as Part One, Part Two, and Part Three):
The Gold Standard - In Paris, Simon Templar finds a mortally wounded...