Tom Converse was the kind of man to pull a Colt from his back pocket
faster than the seasoned gunslingers could draw from a hip holster. It
seemed to come easy to him--like breathing in and out. But was he also
the kind of man to make a whole town trigger-happy with fear? Did he
hide behind a dark mask and come back for vengeance?
Was he The Shadow? Sylvia didn't think so. "I'm the only one who knows
the face of the real Shadow," she said. A dappled chestnut with black
points is the only cue to the identity of a town's secret horror. It
could be a case of mistaken identity, but yet, again....
This early Max Brand classic features the mysterious and ambiguous
figure of The Shadow, a masked and lonely gunslinger who foreshadows
great Western legends like Zorro and the Lone Ranger.