Shadow 180 - Wizard of Crime 08-15-39, 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

ALL these companies were paying tribute in one way or another to R. G. Dean, and could actually do nothing about it. He was selling them things that they had good enough reason to buy.

The fact that Dean’s prices were always multiplied by ten did not make his deals illegal. Furthermore, they were unable to trace the clever crook who was tormenting them.

The letters they received came from different cities, instructing them to send checks promptly to other towns, as specified. All such checks went through different banks, never the same one twice. In fact, R. G. Dean seemed to be somewhat of a myth, except that he always cashed his checks. Finding him was about as easy as gripping some solid substance in the midst of thin, clear air.

Behind all this lay hidden factors. Frederick Glenny was handling the Dean correspondence, performing that duty while on the move. Instead of mailing checks into the old office, he sent them directly to Ralph Atgood’s apartment.

In his turn, Ralph, the dupe, was opening new bank accounts in the name of R. G. Dean, and closing old ones, thanks to the supply of signed checks in his possession.

It was a first-class arrangement, that kept the crooked game several jumps ahead of anyone who might try to trace it, and the racket was bringing in thousands of dollars daily. During the week that followed, new concerns were drawn into the vortex, always too late for The Shadow to block the swindle.

Through other agents besides the three who were reporting on the financial situation, The Shadow was checking on the underworld to see if R. G. Dean had a strong-arm crew in readiness. The Shadow had not forgotten his hectic battle with three armed fighters in a sedan, that night when he had crawled from the wreckage of Parringer’s lab.

But neither Cliff Marsland, the agent who buddied with big-shots in the underworld, nor Hawkeye, the crafty spotter who could trail anything larger than a flea, were able to supply The Shadow with an ounce of information. The Dean-owned mobbies, whoever they were, had extremely fine talent at staying under cover.

Meanwhile, police were still guarding Cyrus Shawnwood and hunting for Isaac Loman. They were managing to protect Shawnwood well enough, but finding Loman was another matter. It was almost as bad as looking for an invisible needle in an imaginary haystack, according to the reports that reached The Shadow.

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