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Happy Death Day by Grant, Maxwell; Elliott, Bruce is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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HAPPY DEATH DAY was originally published in the September 1946 issue of The Shadow Magazine. This was the second Shadow novel written by Bruce Elliott. I mention that right up front, so you know what to expect. You can expect a story that's not even close to Walter Gibson's standards. But if you are interested in what Bruce Elliott could inflict upon a Shadow story, read on... It's the story of murder in a wealthy family. Murder two years ago, and murder today. Let's go back two years. The setting is the suburbs of Chicago in an old house on the side of a knoll that overlooks Lake Michigan. Old Eugene Lively is preparing to move his large family out of the old mansion and into a newly built modernistic house in a newer part of town. Sitting in the study of his new house, he is shot. The killer has struck not an hour before the family was to move in. But strangely, despite the fact that old Eugene's body has begun to stiffen in rigor, an hour later the killer fires another shot into the body. Who would want to kill a dead man? It sounds crazy. Crazy is right! Foster Lively was convicted of the crime and put away in an insane asylum. But now, two years later, he's escaped, and the fa

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Author
Grant, Maxwell; Elliott, Bruce
Publisher
Street & Smith
Published
1946
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction

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