Status Updates From Hands in the Dark

A mystery ending where only the reader - and the Shadow - knows what truly happened. I appreciate it.

And for once, Harry Vincent wasn't completely useless!

One thing we can always appreciate these stories for is their remarkably progressive racial attitudes. Zero stereotyping. Very nice for something written in the thirties.

Just waiting for the same for gender roles...

Every crook in town recognizes the laughter of The Shadow, but still they go out and try do their crookeries. No matter how much time passes, how many villains are dealt away with, there's always more coming along. Where do they come from? How bad is the local economy to keep them coming no matter what? Shouldn't the heroes be dealing with things from the top?

We started out so well, and then along come the death-traps, as contrived and idiotic as ever. Perhaps even more so with the victim being a young girl this time around. Could've done a lot less cartoony villainies to her.

And then The Shadow rescues her but doesn't seem to bring her along as an agent, even though she's already proven herself smarter and more resourceful than Harry Sullivan ever was. Tsk.