The Shadow - 288 - Merry Mrs. MacBeth by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: 1945-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

It was plain to Margo that he had learned and believed Cranston’s break-down of the telephone booth riddle. Clear though that solution was, it remained blind where the tracking of the murderer was concerned. Any enemy of Clabb’s could have been regarded as a suspect.

Now the quest was really narrowed. Clabb’s death could definitely be written off to someone connected with Merry Mrs. Macbeth.

The Clabb case, with all its sinister planning, now rated purely as a prelude to the major crimes intended.

The motive behind Clabb’s death revealed itself quite clearly. If Clabb had lived, he would have been the one man who might have named the murderer who had just now split even in a double stroke.

So simple, so restricted did Vera’s death seem in comparison to Clabb’s, that Weston spoke as though he could crack the present riddle for the asking. But with the commissioner was a calm-faced man who did not agree.

Singular that Lamont Cranston, who had solved the sealed phone booth riddle through sheer deduction, should foresee difficulties in the cracking of a mystery that seemed purely a process of elimination with all the suspects actually on hand.

Or was it singular?

Behind that masklike countenance of Cranston lay the keen brain of The Shadow, which never discounted the intelligence that some other person similarly might mask.

The criminal mind that had so cunningly contrived the phone booth murder would not have exhausted nor even exerted its ingenuity with such a preliminary.

To Lamont Cranston, otherwise The Shadow, it was a certainty that the death of Vera Scharn, if solved, would supply factors unique in the annals of crime.

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