March 24, 2009

Most of the links now work again.

I now have another site.  It has nothing to do with The Shadow, but I hope you find it of interest.  It's here http://lycos.com/outofplumb/index.html

NEW  The Shadow Spreadsheet.  Thanks to Tricia Whitfield there is now a spreadshe available which contains all of the cast information from this site.  For more information go here.  Tricia also pointed out that Crime County was missing from this site.  Ths has been corrected.

Many, many thanks to John Olsen for the new masthead.  This is a big improvement over the old one.  Thanks John.

This is a temporary site because Monday I discovered that Geocities removed the old site.  Note that references to where the novels can be downloaded should be removed, since it is no longer legal to distribute them.

These pages are dedicated to the memory of Walter Gibson, one of the best of the writers from the pulp magazine era. If you only know of The Shadow from the radio programs. I recommend reading one of the original novels, especially the first one of the series: The Living Shadow. You may become one of The Shadow's agents yourself. In the original stories The Shadow had many more friends and agents than just Margo Lane, Shrevvie the cab driver, and Commissioner Weston. He also had more aliases than just Lamont Cranston. What was his real name? To find out, read the stories. This is an attempt to identify all of the agents and friends (and a few archenemies) who appeared in each of the stories, and where to find the novels to download and read.

NEW - Fritz, The Shadow's disguise at police headquarters, fixed to eliminate mentions of other characters named Fritz.

The Devil's Whisper added. This is the result of a manual search (I searched for all mentions of thumb within 15 words of finger and then checked to see if these were mentions relevant) of all of The Shadow stories. I hope I got them all; if not, let me know.

A preliminary search for the purplish liquid which The Shadow uses to revive someone or is used to revive him added. This search is done by doing a manual search of all mentions of "purplish liquid" or vial or phial or elixir. Being a manual search this is prone to errors but I believe it to be both complete and accurate. If I'm wrong please let me know. After all of the stories are available a more complete report on all of the liquids and powders that The Shadow carries with him will be available here.

NEW - Bruce Duncan added to the list of agents and friends. He was aided several times by The Shadow.

NEW - Where the gangs hang out added. Red Mikes, The Black Ship, and The Pink Rat are now tracked.

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE NOTE: ANY COUNTS OF A CHARACTER'S APPEARANCES ARE ROUGH
COUNTS ONLY. IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO GET AN EXACT COUNT WHEN A GIVEN CHARACTER
CAN BE REFERRED TO BY THREE DIFFERENT NAMES: e.g. Lamont Cranston, Lamont,
and Cranston. AN IMPROVED COUNTING PROCEDURE IS BEING WORKED ON.

THE NOVELS AND WHO'S IN THEM

• IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

• IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

There are now three entries for Twambley, one of The Shadow's disguises. He started out as Phineas Twambley for the early stories and then became Isaac Twambley in the later stories. Plus, in at least one story he appears as just Twambley. The Twambley entry includes ANY mention of a Twambley and the other two entries only include the specific Twambley.

WHERE THE AGENTS CAN BE FOUND

• FIRST APPEARANCES

• AGENTS BY NUMBER OF APPEARANCES WITHIN STORY

• NOVELS BY CHARACTER AND THINGS

LISTINGS OF ALL OF THE NOVELS (regardless of availability)

• ALL NOVELS BY AUTHOR

• ALL NOVELS in alphabetical order (For the sake of completeness, this also includes the Dennis Lynds stories from the mid-60's.)

• THE LITTLE POLEY SOCIETY and its BIG brother, The Maxi Tongo Society. (This is a feeble attempt to increase my site counter by possibly attracting Sherlock Holmes fans.)

• MUGGERS and MUCK RUNNERS A couple of curious excerpts from The Shadow Magazine.

This has nothing to do with The Shadow, but please take a look at it anyway. It's what I've been doing in my spare time. Bottle with 4 Decks of Cards.

Up until now I have not had many links to other Web Sites in these pages, limiting my links to sites that have the novels available for downloading. To take care of this lack of links, there is a new site available that has a very extensive list of links concerning not only The Shadow,

but a lot of related material. If you need any information about The Shadow you can probably find it here ... http://members.fortunecity.com/shadowsanctum/  There's enough there to keep you busy for quite a while.

More information about some of the agents can be found at www.lanset.com/lurch/pulp/agents.html Thanks to Jean Lollar for bringing this to my intention.

For some time I've wanted to have more information on the background of the agents. John Olsen has beaten me to it, and he has done a much better job of it than I could have. Thanks, John.

Contact me at: ronplumb@yahoo.com

(All of The Shadow pages, except this one and Little Poley, were created using programs written in PowerBASIC. Thanks, PowerBASIC! The entire process of indexing each of the novels and creating all the pages now takes 15 minutes on my antique 486 PC. If it were done by hand it would take many hours to do the updating.)

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