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Title: The Silent Death
Series:
The Shadow #27
Authors: Maxwell Grant
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages:
160
Words: 50K
Publish: 1933
It’s been a while since we had a good Mad Scientist type story and this fit the bill perfectly. Mixing in the Gang Leader brought in a bunch of toughs for The Shadow to fight with as well and that is always good.
Another story that I enjoyed.
★★★✬☆
From Bookstooge
A Mad Scientist, who has been experimenting with various ways to kill people with invisible means (ie, electrical, chemical, etc), teams up with a crooked Investor and a Gangster. They plan to kill other investors that will help the Crooked Investor, thus spreading the wealth amongst the three.
Things go wrong when The Shadow intervenes at the first attempt and it becomes a duel between the Mad Scientist and The Shadow to see who can kill the other first. The Shadow rewires one of the Mad Scientist’s traps and the Mad Scientist ends up electrocuting himself to bbq. Yum, the other, other white meat!
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