Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 058 - Chain of Death by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
ISBN: 9781608770335
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 2010-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

ONE hour elapsed. The search was still continuing in the Hotel Salamanca. Cardona had begun with the twenty-fourth floor. He had then headed up to the penthouse, leaving two detectives to patrol the twenty-fourth floor. Not a possible hiding place had been missed.

A third detective was standing by the elevators. He was within earshot of his companions. His duty was to watch the stairway. He was following the same procedure that had made it possible for Clyde Burke to come upstairs as a false detective: in brief, he was watching to see that no one left the twenty-fourth floor, not to look for any arrival.

Hence his eyes were not toward the stairway. They were turned toward the corridors where the patrolling detectives were in charge. These men were pacing back and forth; occasionally one strolled up to the penthouse to report to Joe Cardona.

The stairway that led below was black. From its solid darkness came a strange, moving patch that extended along the floor. It became the silhouette of a hawklike profile. It rested almost at the feet of the detective who was standing by the elevators.

The patch moved inward. It was followed by a form. The sinister figure of The Shadow came in sight. Noiselessly, the tall being approached until he reached a corner of the wall beyond the elevators. The single detective was standing near the corridor. The Shadow was less than three feet from him.

Silently, The Shadow waited. The detective, wearied of what seemed a useless vigil, drew a cigarette from his pocket. He followed with a match. He turned as he applied the flame to the cigarette.

Strolling from the entrance to the corridor, he approached the elevator. The flicker of the match showed his face to The Shadow. The sleuth, however, busied with his light, did not observe that tall black shape in passing.

The Shadow swung noiselessly from his hiding place. He swept toward the corridor. The doors of rooms were opened. A patrolling detective was moving in the opposite direction. Before the man had reached his turning point, The Shadow had glided into one of the empty rooms.

There The Shadow waited until the man had passed in the opposite direction. Again, the black-garbed phantom moved into the corridor - across - then through another open door: the one marked 2410.

Safe in Professor Devine’s suite, The Shadow began an intermittent investigation. He timed his actions to the passing of the detective. Whenever the man’s footsteps approached, The Shadow slid to cover; at other times, he continued his examination.

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