Hits: 49 'Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows!' Shadow Magazine Stories, published by Street & Smith (#1-#334 plus 2 Short Stories) The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of media. Details of the title character have varied across various media, but he is generally depicted as a crime-fighting vigilante with psychic powers posing as a 'wealthy, young man about town'. One of the most famous adventure heroes of the twentieth century, The Shadow has been featured on the radio, in a long-running pulp magazine series, in comic books, comic strips, television, serials, video games, and at least five motion pictures. Maxwell Grant was a pen name used by the authors of The Shadow pulp magazine stories. ![]() By Maxwell Grant. As originally published in 'The Shadow Magazine,' July/August 1931. Six prominent men were expecting a share in a glittering fortune. Find great deals on eBay for the shadow books by maxwell grant. Shop with confidence. ![]() Street & Smith, the publishers of The Shadow, asked Walter B. Gibson, a writer hired to chronicle the Shadow's adventures, to create a pen name for the Shadow's author for several reasons, primarily so that numerous authors could be used to write the stories without confusing the readers. Gibson, who was also a nonfiction writer, wanted to use a pen name for his fiction. He adopted the pen name Maxwell Grant, taking the name from two magic dealers he knew, Maxwell Holden and U.F. Four authors besides Gibson have used the Maxwell Grant pen name: Theodore Tinsley, who wrote 27 Shadow stories between 1936 and 1943; Lester Dent, who wrote one story, The Golden Vulture, in 1938; Bruce Elliott, who wrote 15 Shadow stories between 1946 and 1948; and Dennis Lynds, who wrote nine Shadow paperback novels between 1964 and 1967. Lamont Cranston appears! He's a millionaire, he into radio, and he and The Shadow never seem to be in the same place at the same time. Like the first book, The Shadow's agent Harry Vincent carries a good-sized piece of the story. Wealthy heir Bruce Duncan is also at the center of things here. From the moment he wakes up to find a freakin' monster stealing hidden papers from a secret compartment in his bedroom! Book two here is not as concerned with twists and reveals as the other books I've re Lamont Cranston appears! He's a millionaire, he into radio, and he and The Shadow never seem to be in the same place at the same time. Like the first book, The Shadow's agent Harry Vincent carries a good-sized piece of the story. Wealthy heir Bruce Duncan is also at the center of things here. From the moment he wakes up to find a freakin' monster stealing hidden papers from a secret compartment in his bedroom! Book two here is not as concerned with twists and reveals as the other books I've read, which is a little disappointing, but I think that happened because of the space given to introducing Lamont Cranston. The plot involved a fortune of a Russian prince to be paid to a group of men who helped him escape the revolution, only a villain is luring each of the men to his death before he can get his share. What's more important is that it pits colorful henchmen against The Shadow and friends, as well as a death-trap and a torture chamber! This sequel does give us more of The Shadow himself, which is nice. We don't get a whole lot of time with the mastermind villain, which I was also a tad disappointed with. I'm already thoroughly obsessed with this series and lucky for me there are over 300 more of these! And there's a chapter entitled “In the Black Ship”, which is among the most metal chapter titles I have ever encountered! July 1, 1931 The basic plot is about six guys who are going to share in a fortune. The slight problem is that they are being killed off one by one. One of the main characters is Bruce Duncan who returns from Japan to live in his uncle's house. Bruce has to take care of the division of the money, but before he can do that the information he needs is stolen. The Shadow himself shows his ability at disguises. This ties in to the idea that some readers have that the Shadow's real face was severely dam July 1, 1931 The basic plot is about six guys who are going to share in a fortune. The slight problem is that they are being killed off one by one. One of the main characters is Bruce Duncan who returns from Japan to live in his uncle's house. Bruce has to take care of the division of the money, but before he can do that the information he needs is stolen. The Shadow himself shows his ability at disguises. This ties in to the idea that some readers have that the Shadow's real face was severely damaged somehow, probably during World War I, and that he is an expert at making up his face to look like it is real and normal. The Shadow uses the Lamont Cranston identity for the first time in this book. The Shadow Ebooks Maxwell Grant FreeHarry Vincent, Burbank and Claude Fellows are also in the book. There's also the Black Ship, which is an underworld saloon. The Shadow also shows his technical advances by using a short-wave radio (used many times in the radio programs) and something vaguely like a television. He also uses his fading ink. I really prefer the pulp cover to the paperback cover that was released later. Here's another from my overloaded mystery shelf that I will add to my husband's pile of thrillers that he and some friends circulate. It has an endlessly contrived plot, characters that aren't very interesting - and of course the criminals are either grunting thugs or evil masterminds - and little else to recommend it. However, Grant comes from an era when competent writing skills and a decent vocabulary were essential if a writer were to be published. When I was a little girl, my dad would liste Here's another from my overloaded mystery shelf that I will add to my husband's pile of thrillers that he and some friends circulate. It has an endlessly contrived plot, characters that aren't very interesting - and of course the criminals are either grunting thugs or evil masterminds - and little else to recommend it. Our goal is to provide top notch user experience for our visitors. Torrent igo primo windows cell phone. If search results are not what you looking for please give us feedback on where we can/or should improve. With our unique approach to crawling we index shared files withing hours after Upload. When you search for files (video, music, software, documents etc), you will always find high-quality igo primo 9 windows ce files recently uploaded on DownloadJoy or other most popular shared hosts. As an file sharing search engine DownloadJoy finds igo primo 9 windows ce files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in uploading sites by our search spider. However, Grant comes from an era when competent writing skills and a decent vocabulary were essential if a writer were to be published. When I was a little girl, my dad would listen to The Shadow on Sunday afternoon radio. The opening scared me so badly that I'd hide behind our big armchair - loving every minute of it. Obviously, the book awakened no thrill or chill. I believe this is the second of 'the Shadow' series and it was pretty good. I really liked the scenes where the 'Shadow' was on stage. They were appropriately weird and a bit creepy. Unfortunately, the Shadow character is off stage through much of the book. And the writing in general is pretty weak, full of a false kind of dialogue where the characters explain things to each other that they already know. Still, it had a decent narrative drive and I can see why these books were popular at the tim I believe this is the second of 'the Shadow' series and it was pretty good. I really liked the scenes where the 'Shadow' was on stage. They were appropriately weird and a bit creepy. Unfortunately, the Shadow character is off stage through much of the book. And the writing in general is pretty weak, full of a false kind of dialogue where the characters explain things to each other that they already know. Still, it had a decent narrative drive and I can see why these books were popular at the time they were written. I actually listened to this on my Kindle.
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