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The Grove of Doom by Grant, Maxwell; Gibson, Walter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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THE GROVE OF DOOM was published in the September 1, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine. This is one of the top ten Shadow novels of all time. It's a wonderfully moody mystery set out on Long Island Sound. Two large houses: Upper Beechview and Lower Beechview. And between them, several acres of copper beech trees. A grove which people enter, but never leave. Only The Shadow will dare to confront the strange power of the grove of doom! The story opens in the dead of night. Out on Long Island Sound a bare sailing ship with square-rigged masts drops anchor in the heavy fog. A small boat, its oars muffled, heads toward the beach. Dark-skinned Malays carry two heavy cubical boxes onto the sandy shore, then return to the phantom ship. In the black of the night, an vague, unidentified figure opens one of the two boxes. From within steps a short, wiry Chinaman named Lei Chang. Lei Chang stops the unknown man from opening the second box, for inside Koon Woon lies sleeping. And Koon Woon, the Master, must not be awakened! The two carry the large box containing Koon Woon from the shore of Long Island Sound up onto the grass and into the grove of trees. The grove of copper beeches. The grove of

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Author
Grant, Maxwell; Gibson, Walter
Publisher
Street & Smith
Published
1933
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction

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