Gangdom's Doom

Do not kill off one of the Shadow's agents. Not a healthy thing to do. Claude Fellows, one of the Shadow's agents, is killed in this book and the Shadow is out for revenge, big-time. Fellows is told the secrets of various rackets in Chicago and is killed for his knowledge. The Shadow comes to Chicago along with agent Harry Vincent who works on infiltrating the rackets.

The Shadow has an interesting approach in that, instead of taking the gangs out one at a time, he pits them against each other and let's them do the dirty work. Remember, this is the time of the big gangs like Al Capone, The St. Valentine's Massacre and so forth. Mention is also made of the Shadow's radio broadcasts which were, of course, a tie-in between the book and the radio broadcast series.

The radio shows almost always, if not always, had Lamont and Margo together. Something goes wrong and the Shadow uses his ability to 'cloud men's minds' to solve the problem. They are definitely worth listening to, although many of them seem to have been lost forever.

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