Gil Vine is a house officer in a N.Y. city hotel which witnesses the murder of a man in the suite of Tildy Millett, gimmick girl on a video show. From Tildy’s love for Dow Lanerd who plays around but not for keeps, to Lanerd’s murder which is to...
I swung the wet, flat money belt, enjoying the slap of it against my leg.
I had gone through a lot to get that belt. I had consorted with midgets and freaks. I had been lied to, framed, been offered the bribery of a beautiful but depraved...
NO MAN ESCAPES THE SINS OF HIS PAST
Six years after quitting the Florida Mob, Peter Mallory is about to be dragged back in.
Stalked by a vicious killer and losing his hold on power, Mallory’s old boss needs help – the kind...
A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world'slargest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating expert TonyValentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find our how.DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperare characters...
Fedoras and trench coats mix with flying cars and android policeman in this introductory short story that introduces the character of Mick Trubble: a hard drinking, chain smoking charmer trying to find his way in a city with no memory and even less...
THE BLACK HUSH was originally published in the August 1, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine
Out of nowhere comes a deep, all-enveloping blackness, hiding deeds of evil, making all helpless against it. But The Shadow comes out of the blackness to...
Murder of a Genius
When a mechanical genius is murdered at the moment of his greatest invention, THE SHADOW decodes a plan of linked deaths and traps a master killer in a bizarre and brilliant intrigue…
As originally published in “The...
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis. FROM THE PUBLISHER Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous...