As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” April 15, 1934.
The glamour of circus life — with the cloud of criminal activity hovering over it to challenge The Shadow!
(NOTE: A Glossary of Circus and “Carny” terms is at the...
CROOKS GO STRAIGHT was originally published in the March 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
How many crooks go straight? Two crooks, to be exact. This story follows the reformed lives of two ex-crooks, Steve Zurk and Jack Targon. Steve Zurk...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” December 15, 1934.
A master crook, whose machinations of crime leads The Shadow on a trail from the heart of New York to the Latin Quarter of New...
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...
The nightmare tale of the life and death of Dillon, American gangster. From the first to the last page, the ruthlessness of an inhuman killer is set down with stark realism. Chase's second...
From Publishers Weekly
One of a handful of novels he was working on at the time of his death, this fine, perhaps final, work from hard-boiled fiction icon Spillane (1918–2006) was prepared for publication by Hard Case vet Max Allan Collins....
Til death do us part... Marcy Addwatter killed her husband — there's no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too.
But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case,...
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...