"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 320 - Reign of Terror" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

"Of course." Corbaccio pulled his gun out. He shot the man through the head. The old seamed worn face
fell forward on top of the pass book.

Walking out the revolving door, Corbaccio looked around. No nosy cabbies around? None. He was in
the clear. He walked down the block to his parked car. He got into it and drove away.

CHAPTER VII
BURBANK kept dialing the number that only he knew. There was no answer. The Shadow was out.
Burbank had no idea where he might be. He kept looking at the screaming headlines on the paper he had
in front of him. If he could be sure The Shadow had seen the papers he would be able to relax. But till
then he'd have to keep trying...

At that moment a dark clothed arm reached out and deftly picked a paper off a stack. A dime dropped
onto the stack of papers. The arm and the gloved hand that held the paper was gone as if it had never
been there.

The newsie saw the dime and wondered casually where it had come from.

In the front of his cab Shrevvie shifted his weight and slid down further under the wheel. No telling when
The Shadow would get back in the cab.

Suddenly, from nowhere a voice said softly, "Uptown, Shrevvie."

Shrevvie spun in his seat. Sure enough, The Shadow had done it again. He always swore that just once
he'd see the shifting black cloud enter the cab. But he had failed again.

In the back of the cab The Shadow unfolded the paper. He looked at the headlines. 'Gossip Columnist
Mowed Down. Gang War On!' The details under the head were almost as lurid. Five men machine
gunned. Two policemen, two private detectives, and one gossip columnist. The paper which had not run
Teller's column hinted that the situation might well be parallel to the St. Valentine's Day massacre when
Jake Lingle, a reporter in the pay of the underworld, was killed along with six other men.

They couldn't go too far for fear that Teller's paper would sue, but the hints were clear enough. On the
one hand they smeared Teller but then on the other hand there was a screaming editorial about the death
of a reporter, a man hired to tell the truth...

The paper promised that if the police were helpless that the matter would not end so, that the paper was
starting a crusade for the arrest and death of whoever was behind the massacre.

The Shadow folded the paper up. Another lead gone. He had been right. There had been something
suspicious in the meteoric rise of Teller.

This wholesale killing was proof of that.

The policemen. Had they really been on the police force or were they judas goats designed to lead Teller
to the abattoir? The second guess seemed likely since they had accompanied Teller and the two private
detectives.

Then why had the fake policemen been killed?