"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 153 - Murder For Sale" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

Obviously, crooks would try to make Harry talk, but they would be
convinced, at the start, that he knew very little. Like all The Shadow's
agents, Harry could be cool in such a situation. He could tell his captors
enough to satisfy them, without revealing vital facts.
If crooks persisted in asking too much, the supposed leads that Harry
would give them would later supply a trail for The Shadow.
But, in his analysis of the subject, The Shadow formed the correct
conclusion that crooks would scarcely question Harry at all. Instead, they
would probably keep him helpless, until they had finished the run of crime
that Ring Brescott had begun in Philadelphia. Until then, Harry would be safe.
Meanwhile, it behooved The Shadow to cut into Ring's schemes, forcing the
big-shot into conflict that would produce trails that The Shadow needed--not
only to Harry Vincent, but to Ring Brescott himself.
Unfortunately, The Shadow had suffered a setback in this plan. He had
lost all trace of the mysterious girl who had played a part in tonight's fray.
Like The Shadow, mobsters would be anxious to meet that girl again. The
forced departure of Isabel Rendolf had deprived The Shadow of the one person
who could have helped him lure men of crime into new trouble.
For the present, The Shadow's process would have to be a matter of lone
investigation.

CHAPTER VII
CRIME CREEPS ANEW
Two days had passed. It was late afternoon, and The Shadow sat in his
suite at the Bellevue-Stratford reading the latest editions of the
Philadelphia evening newspapers. He had registered here in his right name,
Kent Allard--famous explorer and aviator.
Allard, after an airplane wreck in Guatemala, had to all outward
appearances, lived for years with the Xinca Indians.
No one had ever linked Allard with The Shadow. True, Allard's long,
hawkish features bore some semblance to The Shadow's profile; but, presumably,
Allard had been absent from the country during some of The Shadow's most
famous campaigns.
However, with but a few months exception, Allard had been in the United
States all the while. That was a piece of misinformation that enabled Kent
Allard to use his own guise of The Shadow.
So far, The Shadow had made very little progress in Philadelphia. He had
an advantage over the police, who were still wondering who Harry Vincent was
and where he had gone. But, like the law, The Shadow had been unable to trace
anything from the three dead thugs, who had not been identified with any local
mob.
Moreover, The Shadow was handicapped by lack of the report that he had
ordered from Harry. He knew that his agent had visited friends of Louis
Rulland, but he had no clue to which ones. To go over the same route would be
a bad mistake, for by this time all persons concerned with the murder racket
would be wary.
Nor was there a single clue to the mystery girl of two nights ago. That,
in a sense, was helpful. It meant that she had confidence in The Shadow and
preferred to leave matters in his hands.
Today, with possible clues fading one by one, The Shadow had struck upon