Two detectives were seriously wounded and one of the gunmen killed. The East Indian, during the gun battle, successfully made his escape.
Inspector Church told reporters that every available man on the force had been put on the case and that the escaped prisoner’s recapture was imminent.…
Inspector Church always told the reporters that. But this time he believed it himself. He didn’t think that the brown-skinned Shivara would be able for very long to dodge the close meshed dragnet he had spread.
If the Inspector could only have had one little glimpse into a reliable crystal ball he would have seen a picture of the future that would have made his blood run cold!
18 Bent, though armed with a gun, had had to use the Dagger of Darius on Richards, because it had the advantage of being noiseless.
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Claws of Satan
CHAPTER II: Murder Unlocks a Door
CHAPTER III: Trapped with Death
CHAPTER IV: Quick, Watson — The Handcuffs
CHAPTER V: Ways of Departure
CHAPTER VI: The Second Corpse
CHAPTER VII: An Early Arrest
CHAPTER VIII: The Great Elevator Trick
CHAPTER IX: The Leopard Man
CHAPTER X: Death in the Air
CHAPTER XI: Poison Most Foul
CHAPTER XII: The Listening Clown
CHAPTER XIII: Laugh, Clown
CHAPTER XIV: River of Death
CHAPTER XV: Loose Ends Tangled
The Enchanted Dagger
CHAPTER I: The Man from India
CHAPTER II: Guillotine
CHAPTER IV: Murder Without Corpse
CHAPTER V: The Man Twice Dead
CHAPTER VI: The Window Trick
CHAPTER VII: The Seeing Mind
CHAPTER VIII: Evil in Two Places
CHAPTER IX: Murder by Magic
CHAPTER X: The Dagger of Darius
CHAPTER XI: Race Against Death
CHAPTER XII: Rogue Hunt
CHAPTER XIII: The Great Indian Rope Trick
CHAPTER XIV: The Mna Who Could Be In Two Places At Once
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