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CLUE FOR CLUE was originally published in the October 15, 1942 issue of The Shadow Magazine. Diamonds set the stage for competing bands of daring criminals in this breath-taking exploit of The Shadow. In their battle of wits against the black-cloaked scourge of evil, they play for tremendous stakes -- life and death! This could easily be one of the most forgettable Shadow stories I've ever read. A couple days after reading it, I was hard-pressed to remember any of the details. And this was after reading it for the second time! It has a plot that, when you distill it down to a few paragraphs, sounds on the surface like a pretty good story. But when I was actually reading it, I found myself having trouble following along. My attention really flagged. It seemed confusing, and I didn't feel motivated to try to unscramble the characters and events. It just didn't seem worth the effort. Consider what was happening in the world at the time this story was published. World War II was raging across Europe, and on the American homefront, and in this pulp story The Shadow was fighting Nazis. They are after diamonds that had been smuggled out of Europe by Wadden van Zuyder, and only The Shadow

Author

Maxwell Grant

Publisher

Street & Smith

Published

1942

Language

EN