Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 156 - The Green Hoods by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

RECOVERING his bullet-riddled cloak, The Shadow donned it. Planting his slouch hat on his head, he gripped the boarding of the rear wall, pulled himself up to the shattered ceiling.

Once above that level, he found a slight foothold, worked on the door of the ground-floor closet.

It opened. The glow from the flare below gave The Shadow a view of a stairway. Closing the closet door, he moved through absolute darkness. His goal was the second floor; there, he might find the person that he actually wanted: Louis Wenz.

The trap that had caught The Shadow was in Wenz’s own home. The Shadow knew that the man who had planted it had guessed wrong as to its merits. That man, hearing shots below, would have supposed The Shadow dead. Therefore, The Shadow held a new advantage by his present stealth.

He reached the second floor. Without using his flashlight, he groped through darkness, listening for any sounds. There were none; rooms were totally empty.

At last, The Shadow arrived at the door of the only room he had not searched. It was at the back of the second floor; the door was closed.

Noiselessly, The Shadow opened that door. Edging through, he closed it behind him. He groped about the room until he came to the rear wall, where he knew that the broken shaft passed beyond the closet door.

There, The Shadow encountered something on the floor. It gave, like a man’s body; but it was heavy. The Shadow pressed the button of his flashlight. It failed; the bulb was broken.

Reaching up, The Shadow felt the knob of the closet door; there was a key there also. Inspired by a quick idea, he unlocked the door and opened it.

Up through the shaft came the fading gleam of the ten-minute flare. Its ruddy reflection stretched ghostly across the floor. It revealed the figure of a man in a dressing gown, whose attire marked him as the owner of this house.

Again that glow was a flare of doom. The eerie light showed a peaked face. Drawn lips, goggly eyes were stiffened in death. A knife was projecting from the victim’s breast, but it was no Borgia stiletto. Its wavy blade, partly visible, showed it to be another type of weapon - a Malay creese.

A clotted blot told that death had been delivered long before. That splotch looked colorless; for the hue of blood was lost in the crimson light.

The Shadow’s whispered laugh was grim, mirthless. It told that his trail of just vengeance was postponed. The Shadow had found Louis Wenz, Member 10 of the Green Hoods, whom the law suspected as a double killer.

But instead of uncovering a murderer, The Shadow had disclosed another victim of the master assassin who still remained unknown!

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