Thursday, July 7, 2011

"Voice of Death"

In 1941 Bantam Publications published The Shadow and the Voice of Murder by Maxwell Grant, pseudonym for Walter Gibson. The story was first published in the February 15, 1940 issue of The Shadow as “Voice of Death”. Now, seventy years later, the story has been reprinted again. The Shadow Volume 49 (San Antonio, TX: Sanctum Books) has just been published and includes the third Shadow story from 1931 as well as "Voice of Death".

The Bantam Publications book is mentioned but, as is often the case, details are wrong. The year is given as 1942 and it's called "an early Bantam book" which gives the impression that it was published by the later Bantam Books of New York. The illustrated cover is reproduced.