The Crime Oracle: And, the Teeth of the Dragon: Two Adventures of the Shadow

by Walter B. Gibson

Crime Fiction, Fictional Novel This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048623116X
• ISBN13: 9780486231167
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It's great!

This wonderful book is actually a collection of two of Walter Brown Gibson's (1897-1985) great Shadow novels, and begins with an introduction by Gibson himself. The two stories are gems in and of themselves, but together they form a great collection. My father used to talk about listening to The Shadow on the radio when he was a kid, and I was thrilled to be able to hear it myself. Now, after some serious searching, I have been able to read some original Shadow pulp novels. Written when Walter Gibson was at his height, these stories are fascinating and well written. If you are a fan of The Shadow, then you should read this book. I give it two thumbs up, WAY up! The first story is The Crime Oracle, which was first published in 1936. There's a series of crimes being committed; crimes so perfectly planned that even The Shadow can't seem to prevent them. It seems that the criminals have a perfect planner for their crimes - a crime oracle - a magic disembodied head! Can The Shadow out-think and out-fight the Crime Oracle? Only the Shadow knows! In the second story, The Teeth of the Dragon, first published 1937, a mysterious letter arrives for the Shadow from China. It seems that a Chinese criminal organization that has been operating out of San Francisco's Chinatown is spinning broader and more intricate webs. There's only one man who can penetrate the Jeho Fan (the Teeth of the Dragon) and stop their schemes - The Shadow!