The Black Hush

This is another really good Shadow story. The term Black Hush may sound strange, but it's explained in the story. A crook has found a way to project an area of blackness that also neutralizes electrical devices, so crooks can work quite literally under the cover of darkness.

A number of the Shadow's agents are involved in the story, including Clyde Burke, Harry Vincent, Rutledge Mann, and Burbank. Both Clyde and Harry have fairly major roles.

There's also a number of crooks including Ping Slattery and Goldy Tancred, both of which are pretty neat names for crooks.

There's the usual robberies (using the cover of the black hush), the typical Shadow agents involvement, and some extremely daring climbing done by the Shadow himself. There's plenty of gunfire and, in the end, as usual, the crooks pay for their crimes.

Which is another reason, I think, why the Shadow was so popular. The evil people pay for their crimes. There's no long trials


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