The Shadow 044 Treasures of Death by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1933-11-30T23:00:00+00:00

At Lamont Cranston’s order, Stanley stopped the limousine while his employer went to make a telephone call. After Cranston returned, the car continued on its way. The soft laugh echoed once again in the darkness.

Though chance had tricked him tonight, The Shadow could see the opening trail that would lead him to the crime maker who had ordered the death of Compton Salwood.

The presence of the mobsters; the flight of the lone man who had lingered; the strange murder of Compton Salwood-all these facts were fitting into a complete scheme.

The evidence that The Shadow had gained prior to Salwood’s return to his office was sufficient to give a clew to those which the master crime hunter already possessed.

Despite the efforts of a supercrook to balk detection by slaying Compton Salwood, The Shadow would continue his lone battle. Coming events would show him the way to final triumph.

In all his calculations, The Shadow took account of chance. He had a way of meeting circumstances that had never failed. Yet The Shadow was destined to encounter the unexpected once again before he reached the spot he sought.

The future, though The Shadow might seek to plan it, lay beyond his full control. That was a fact that The Shadow was destined to learn.

CHAPTER XIII. CARDONA’S TURN

To Detective Joe Cardona, the murder of Compton Salwood brought unusual complexities. When he had set out for Salwood’s shop, Joe had believed that he was visiting a madman. He could see no connection between the interior decorator and the manuscript that had been supposedly stolen from the home of Shattuck Barliss.

The sight of Salwood’s dead body; the forms of five dead and wounded mobsters on the floor of the front shop; the quick escape of one man through the window-these were factors that were quite as important as they were baffling.

When definite facts were concerned, Joe Cardona was the man to follow them. What the detective lacked in deductive reasoning, he possessed in proclivity for action. When morning had arrived, Joe appeared in the office of Inspector Timothy Klein and laid a full report upon the desk.

“Tell me about it, Joe,” suggested the inspector.

“There’s a lot to tell,” declared the detective. “I’ve talked with young Barliss and I’ve found out a connection with Compton Salwood.”

“Barliss knew him?”

“No; but his uncle did. Salwood redecorated the library for old Shattuck Barliss. There’s a chance that a real manuscript was stolen there and that Salwood knew about it.”

“A good start.”

“That’s not all. I followed the lead and called up Wendel Hargate. He told me, when I questioned him, that Salwood had fixed up his place also. He was rather gruff about it; seemed annoyed because I called.

But it’s possible that Salwood could have known about something phony up there, too.”

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