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Title: The Fingers of Death
Series:
The Shadow #25
Authors: Maxwell Grant
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages:
137
Words: 42K
Publish: 1933
Someone is killing people and only the Shadow can stop it. I thought I knew who the villain was part way through, because it wasn’t too obvious. Then it became obvious who the villain really was. Only it wasn’t, because it was obvious. Then I realized what was really going on and what do you know, I was FINALLY right. Only took three tries, hahahahahaaha!
See, this is one of the things I like about these Shadow novels. I can never tell what the correct solution is. The author is always switching things up and doesn’t repeat a himself.
★★★✬☆
From the Publisher & Bookstooge
One by one, the city's most prominent citizens fell prey to an ingenious and macabre series of murders. A mysterious, pitiless agent of evil on a single-minded mission of destruction was at work - a terrible power whom hapless victims, in their last living moments, came to know and dread as the Fingers of death. Authorities grew more baffled as the ring of horror spread ever wider. One man and one man alone could penetrate the veil of secrecy and reveal the grim living presence behind those murderous fingers. A man more spectral than night itself, a phantom in a dark slouch hat and flowing cloak, whose eerie laugh of triumph sowed terror in the hearts of criminals everywhere.
Decades ago a civil servant stole millions from a bank and hid the money before dying without telling anyone where it was. The rest of the people involved knew it was somewhere in the town. One man begins killing off the others so when they figure out where the money is, he’ll get it all. Only the Shadow knows what is going on and only he put a stop to things and return the stolen money to the honest townsfolk.
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