Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 005 - Gangdom's Doom by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 1970-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

FOUR-GUN SPIRAK slowly crept up the steps that led to the back door of the second-floor apartment. He pulled a skeleton key from his pocket and inserted it in the keyhole of the door.

He stopped to listen. He had made more noise than he had anticipated. Yet he was quickly reassured. There was no sound from within. If Thurman was in the apartment, he was probably unaware of Spirak’s approach.

Then the gangster remembered that he was to effect the earlier entry, prior to the arrival of Hymie Schultz from the front.

He opened the door, and edged in, holding his automatic in readiness. The slight opening of the door revealed a huddled form across the kitchenette - a form that looked like a man.

Without waiting to close the door, Spirak raised his automatic, but he was a second too late. A burst of flame came from the opposite corner.

Four-gun Spirak fell, with three bullets in his body.

Hymie Schultz heard the shots from the front of the apartment, just as he had unlocked the front door. He burst into the place and ran into another man who rose to meet him.

Hymie pulled the trigger of his automatic just as his antagonist seized his wrist, and diverted the shots. The two went down in a heap.

They grappled in the darkness; then Schultz managed to bump his opponent behind the ear. Schultz’s gun had fallen to the floor, and as he reached for it, another man leaped upon him.

Schultz went backward, holding his gun, and fired wildly, as an oath escaped his lips.

Those words spelled his doom. The sound of his voice betrayed him. His opponent had not been sure whether he was friend or foe. But now the muzzle of a revolver was pressed against the side of Hymie’s head, and three shots entered his brain.

The man who had killed Hymie Schultz arose and calmly turned on the light in the apartment. The glare revealed the sinister form of John Genara.

It was Tony Anelmo who had been knocked out by Hymie Schultz, but the disabled Sicilian had now recovered.

An exclamation of amazement escaped Genara’s lips.

“Look!” he cried. “Hymie Schultz!”

Leaving his bewildered companion, he dashed to the kitchenette and turned on the light, to reveal the form of the other dead man. He recognized the face of Four-gun Spirak.

Genara hurried back to the front of the apartment and seized Anelmo by the arm.

“Come on,” he said. “We’ve killed Schultz and Spirak!”

“Where is Monk Thurman?”

“I don’t know. We’ve got to get out.”

The Homicide Twins hurried to the street. Only a few minutes had transpired since the shooting. No one had yet arrived on the scene. Genara drew Anelmo into a side alley, and they moved along quietly but hastily.

“No one must know of this,” insisted Genara. “That is, no one must know that we were mixed in it.”

“We owed it to them,” replied Anelmo.

“That’s good enough. But we’re in wrong with the big shot now, on account of that trouble at Marmosa’s.”

“Maybe he’ll be glad to hear about this.

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