Partners of Peril
Encyclopedia
Partners of Peril was the 113th pulp magazine
story to feature The Shadow
. This particular story was not written by Walter Gibson, but instead by Theodore Tinsley
(as always, using the name 'Maxwell Grant').
Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...
story to feature The Shadow
The Shadow
The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town"...
. This particular story was not written by Walter Gibson, but instead by Theodore Tinsley
Theodore Tinsley
Theodore Tinsley was an American author who wrote primarily mystery stories. Tinsley wrote 27 stories featuring The Shadow for "The Shadow Magazine" pulp magazine. He also created Carrie Cashin, one of the first female detectives in pulp fiction, who appeared in Street & Smith's Crimebuster pulp...
(as always, using the name 'Maxwell Grant').
Summary
- Shadow Disguises: himself, Lamont Cranston
- Shadow Agents: Harry Vincent, Joe Cardona, Claude Fellows and Burbank.
- Plot: The Shadow uncovers a plot between three owners of a chemical company to kill on another off. The plot and much of its action is almost identical to "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", the very first Batman story in Detective Comics No. 27, which appeared some years later.