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Death About Town by Grant, Maxwell; Gibson, Walter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Death About Town about?

DEATH ABOUT TOWN was originally published in the July 15, 1942 issue of The Shadow Magazine. When death strikes the young gentlemen of the Avenue Club, the guilty party is clear. When that man dies, too, the question becomes who murdered him? Again, the guilty party is obvious, until he also is murdered. What is behind this chain of murders? Only The Shadow is capable of accepting the daunting challenge. The year 1942 was not a banner year for The Shadow. There were a few high points, such as "Vengeance Bay," "The Jade Dragon" and "Death's Bright Finger." And then there was the other end of the spectrum, which would probably include this story, "Death About Town." Unfortunately, this is not a great Shadow story. That's not to say it's the worst of 1942 — it's certainly no "The Devil's Partner" — but it still remains an uninspired Shadow tale. By this time in the chronology of The Shadow, readers had been subjected to multitudes of murders in some two-hundred fifty pulp mysteries. A murder, all by itself, wasn't a very remarkable story angle. Yet, that's about all that this story has going for it. There is very little to make this story remarkable. No ghosts; no mad scientists

Who reads Death About Town?

Author

Grant, Maxwell; Gibson, Walter

Publisher

Street & Smith

Published

1942

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Crime, Detective & Crime Fiction