The Silent Seven

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THE SILENT SEVEN was originally published in the February, 1932 issue of The Shadow Magazine. This is only the seventh of the 325 Shadow magazine stories to be published, and as such the character of The Shadow isn't fully realized yet. But it's still an amazing story, so good it was selected for reprint in paperback form, in the early 1970's. The story you are being offered, however, is not the paperback reprint version. This is the complete, unedited magazine version scanned directly from the original pulp magazine.

As our story opens, New York was been victimized by crimes of a startling nature that have gone unsolved for several years, now. Although there was no proof that they were the work of a single organization, the number seven kept appearing in each case. A strange clue indeed! A bank safe was cleaned out, except for seven pennies. A murdered man, seven buttons clipped from his coat. A dying gangster gasped out the word "seven" when captured by the police during a thwarted burglary. It all points to a group known as the Silent Seven.

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