Shadow Magazine Vol 1 169

"River of Death"

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Shadow Magazine Vol 1 #169
March, 1939

Editor-in-Chief

Henry Ralston

Cover Artists

George Rozen

Writers

Theodore Tinsley

Pencilers

Edd Cartier

Inkers

Edd Cartier

Colourists

Monochrome

Letterers

Typeset

Editors

John Nanovic

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Two harbor cops dead! A gang of river pirates wiped out by another gang - who promptly disappear into the depths of the Hudson like a bunch of deep-sea divers! Men found floating in the river with a queer mark on their foreheads! Another discovered drowned in the Central Park Lake, in the middle of Manhattan! And this business about Davy Jones! Who is he? What is he? My stoolies tell me that for weeks the underworld has been buzzing with quiet rumors that a supercriminal has taken over the entire waterfront of New York.

--Joe Cardona

Appearing in "River of Death"

Featured Characters:

• The Shadow

Supporting Characters:

• The Shadow's Agents:

• Burbank (mentioned only)
• Clyde Burke
• Harry Vincent

Villains:

• "Davy Jones" (Anthony Saxon; suicide)
• Roy Hollister (a shipping broker; captured)
• Blue Chip Deegan (a crooked gambler; dies)
• John Brody (bookshop owner; dies)
• Flip Wiley (showboat owner; dies)
• Smoke Paretti (a thug; captured)
• Ned Turner (Edith Turner's father; dies)
• Bickel (a steward)
• Sailor Marco (a river thug; dies)
• Pike (a river thug; dies)
• Turk (Pike's henchman; dies)

Other Characters:

• Commissioner Ralph Weston (mentioned only)
• Acting Inspector Joe Cardona
• Edith Turner (engaged to Roy Hollister)
• Pauline (bookstore clerk)

Locations:

• New York City

• John Brody's Bookshop
• The Hudson River
• The Shadow's Sanctum

Items:

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Vehicles:

• The Equator (a steamship)
• Sliver Knave (ship)
• Woolwich Ferry
  
  

Synopsis for "River of Death"

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Notes

• Sanctum Books reprinted "River of Death" in The Shadow Double-Novel Reprint #36.
• A British version of this story was serialized in The Thriller Library #531, concluding in The Thriller Library #541.
  

Trivia

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Recommended Reading

• The Shadow's adventures at sea:

• "The Broken Napoleons"
• "The Man from Scotland Yard"
• "Crime Rides the Sea"

• Sunken ship tales:

• "Vengeance Bay"

Links and References

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