Shadow 152 - The Rackets King 06-15-38, The by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street and Smith
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

STEPPING to the desk, Fritz’s eyes showed a keen glimmer as they studied the card that Channing had given Grell on the train. Smoothly, the janitor’s fingers went through report sheets, to check on any details that Cardona had forgotten to mention. After that, Fritz gathered up mop and bucket.

The stoopy janitor shambled to a secluded locker; he opened it, picked up a paper that fluttered out. It was the hand bill, printed in German, that announced today’s festivities. A whispered laugh issued from disguised lips as a hand replaced the paper.

This wasn’t Fritz. The real janitor had already gone to the Saengerfest. A hawkish silhouette cast by the false Fritz, told his true identity. That blackened profile marked him as The Shadow.

Soon afterward, The Shadow reached his sanctum. Under a bluish light, The Shadow’s hand wrote inked notations. The name of Lou Channing appeared, followed by the gambler’s aliases. One by one, the names faded as The Shadow’s ink reacted to the air, until the last that remained was Charles Dome’s.

The Shadow spoke that name into a mouthpiece on the wall. Listening through earphones, he heard a response from Burbank, his contact man. The Shadow gave instructions; they concerned duty for Harry Vincent, The Shadow’s most capable active agent.

Harry was to go to Kalamazoo by plane; there, to check up all that he could learn regarding a man named Charles Dome.

That assignment was made to order for Harry Vincent. His own home town was in Michigan. Harry knew St. Joe’s and the adjoining counties like a book. The Shadow could depend upon an early report, particularly as Harry would have Channing’s photograph to work with, as well as the gambler’s alias.

Joe Cardona had voiced two theories today. One concerned Lou Channing; the other, Irene Marcy. Joe figured that the second was better than the first. The Shadow turned them the other way around. He could picture Channing as a possible murderer; but not Irene.

Nevertheless, the Channing theory was clouded. To clear it, The Shadow needed to know if Roger Grell had an alibi for Lou Channing. That was something that didn’t worry Joe Cardona. He was thinking only of murders, not of alibis.

The bluish light clicked off. With the darkness that filled the sanctum came The Shadow’s sinister laugh. That mirth told that the master investigator had picked an overlooked angle that could produce the right answer to the mystery of double murder.

Once crossed alibis were straightened, The Shadow could find the reasons for all crime.

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