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The Black Falcon

By: Maxwell Grant
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
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The Black Falcon, a mysterious master of crime, has solved the Shadow's identity by cracking one of The Shadow's clever disguise. Keeping his own identity hidden, The Black Falcon assigns an evil henchman named Terry Rukes to carry out a bold kidnapping plan and capture The Shadow. With his identity compromised, the Shadow takes flight to avoid capture and triumph against this worthy foe.

©1934, 1936; 1961, 1963 Street & Smith Publications, Inc.; Condé Nast Publications, Inc. (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

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The Strange Creature of the Night

A classic 1934 adventure of The Shadow, facing off against one of the early great supercrooks, The Black Falcon. A splendid and exciting pulp detective story, extremely well performed. Well worth its reasonable price!

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Great Suspense and Mystery

This is another excellent story for the Shadow series. The writing paints a clear picture and pulls you along with the temptation of who the master kidnapper, the Black Falcon, is and what the true identity of the Dark Avenger is.

Although not fully explained until The Shadow Unmasks, this story toys with your expectations to make a grand reveal and an entertaining mystery.

Once again Richard Ferrone does an excellent job with the material. I’d easily recommend this story to pulp fans everywhere.

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Another excellent Shadow adventure!

The dark avenger matches wits with another cunning and daring supercrook! The Black Falcon swoops in and snatches his victims with apparent impunity, but the Shadow is on the case!

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Love The Shadow

I remember listening to the episodes as a kid. Eventually bought as many as survived. Read all the books I could find. Now I can get the books in audio format.

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I love it so much!

As stated previously I wish there were hundreds of these recorded. I'm seeking out the pulp novels, but I love hearing them read.
A lot of fun packed into a quick listen.

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Great book series but the same thing I’ve been having problems with all the others

I like this hero a more classic version of Batman leaning more to the detective side then the man with 1000 gadgets.The reader and how it’s written get a little irritating. Every time he says (the shadow) He sounds like he’s having an orgasm the book says A lot like at least three times every paragraph and more. So you keep hearing him say (the shadow)In this overdramatic tone too many times but overall it’s a good book series and I would like more of them

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We need more of The Shadow!

Great audio book and narration. We need more of The Shadow by Maxwell Grant. Superb stories.

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Great listen

Love these pulps. Narrator fits the setting. Great dectective story. Want to get more. Must read for a Shadow fan or a fan of detective storys

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