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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Steve Cronin, thorn in The Shadow's side for the past five stories, finally gets KilledOffForReal after a bit of HumiliationConga.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Harry was literally seconds from spilling everything he knew about The Shadow after the brutal torture he was subjected to. Fortunately The Shadow shows up at that exact moment [[TheCavalry to rescue him.]]
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Harry was literally seconds from spilling everything he knew about The Shadow after the brutal torture he was subjected to. Fortunately The Shadow shows up at that exact moment [[TheCavalry to rescue him.]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Claude Fellowes was killed on the orders of John Nanovic, the editor for ''The Shadow'' magazine, as he thought there needed to be an ItsPersonal moment to spur The Shadow into action. The murder occurred over Gibson's objection. Very soon after, Gibson introduced the [[ReplacementGoldfish almost completely indistinguishable Rutlidge Mann]] to fill Fellowes' position in The Shadow's network of agents.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Claude Fellowes was killed on the orders of John Nanovic, the editor for ''The Shadow'' magazine, as he thought there needed to be an ItsPersonal moment to spur The Shadow into action. The murder occurred over Gibson's objection. Very soon after, Gibson introduced the [[ReplacementGoldfish almost completely indistinguishable Rutlidge Mann]] to fill Fellowes' position in The Shadow's network of agents.
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* ImprobableAmingSkills: Monk Thurman shoots off the trigger fingers of Schultz and Spirak -- while feigning being asleep in a crowded casino.
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* ImprobableAmingSkills: ImprobableAimingSkills: Monk Thurman shoots off the trigger fingers of Schultz and Spirak -- while feigning being asleep in a crowded casino.
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* DevelopmentGag[=/=]LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Again, as in ''The Living Shadow'', mention is made of The Shadow broadcasting a radio show on Thursday nights, which just happened to be when the RealLife ''Detective Story Hour'' hosted by James [=LaCurto=] as... you know who... aired. This radio show [[TheRedStapler prompted the creation of]] ''The Shadow Magazine'' and early stories published during the original run of the show mentioned this.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: The Shadow sets one of these up between Savoli and Larrigan, by using himself as the bait -- twice.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: The Shadow sets one of these up between Savoli and Larrigan, by using himself as the bait -- twice.twice.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Steve Cronin, thorn in The Shadow's side for the past five stories, finally gets KilledOffForReal after a bit of HumiliationConga.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Steve Cronin, thorn in The Shadow's side for the past five stories, finally gets KilledOffForReal after a bit of HumiliationConga.
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* AndThisIsFor: The Shadow explicitly namechecks Fellows' death as the reason he decided that the Savoli and Larrigan mobs had to be destroyed.
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* AndThisIsFor: The Shadow explicitly namechecks Fellows' death as the reason he decided that the Savoli and Larrigan mobs had to be destroyed.destroyed in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Savoli, Borrango and the rest of the mob.
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* AndThisIsFor: The Shadow explicitly namechecks Fellows' death as the reason he decided that the Savoli and Larrigan mobs had to be destroyed.
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* Recap/TheShadow
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* http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheShadow
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* https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheShadow&sa=U&ei=sAC-VM_dJIflsATh54CADw&ved=0CAUQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNH3vlP8jDJsmFEnTFJbiy34xreiEw
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* https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tvtropes.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheShadow&sa=U&ei=sAC-VM_dJIflsATh54CADw&ved=0CAUQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNH3vlP8jDJsmFEnTFJbiy34xreiEwphp/Recap/TheShadow
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Harry was literally seconds from spilling everything he knew about The Shadow after the brutal torture he was subjected to. Fortunately The Shadow shows up at that exact moment [[TheCavalry to rescue him.]]
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Harry was literally seconds from spilling everything he knew about The Shadow after the brutal torture he was subjected to. Fortunately The Shadow shows up at that exact moment [[TheCavalry to rescue him.]]]]
* https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheShadow&sa=U&ei=sAC-VM_dJIflsATh54CADw&ved=0CAUQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNH3vlP8jDJsmFEnTFJbiy34xreiEw
* https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheShadow&sa=U&ei=sAC-VM_dJIflsATh54CADw&ved=0CAUQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNH3vlP8jDJsmFEnTFJbiy34xreiEw
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines[=/=]VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story was written only two years after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and provided readers some escapism where they could see Al Capone and co. get the kind of justice they deserved in RealLife.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines[=/=]VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story was written only two years after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and provided readers some escapism where they could see Al Capone and co. get the kind of justice they deserved in RealLife. As Capone and the rest were still at large, the ending for Savoli was very different from Capone's (Capone died of syphilis after a lengthy stay at both Leavenworth and Alcatraz, for instance)
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* DevelopmentGag[=/=]LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Again, as in ''The Living Shadow'', mention is made of The Shadow broadcasting a radio show on Thursday nights, which just happened to be when the RealLife ''Detective Story Hour'' hosted by James LaCurto as... you know who... aired. This radio show [[TheRedStapler prompted the creation of]] ''The Shadow Magazine'' and early stories published during the original run of the show mentioned this.
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* DevelopmentGag[=/=]LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Again, as in ''The Living Shadow'', mention is made of The Shadow broadcasting a radio show on Thursday nights, which just happened to be when the RealLife ''Detective Story Hour'' hosted by James LaCurto [=LaCurto=] as... you know who... aired. This radio show [[TheRedStapler prompted the creation of]] ''The Shadow Magazine'' and early stories published during the original run of the show mentioned this.
* ImprobableAmingSkills: Monk Thurman shoots off the trigger fingers of Schultz and Spirak -- while feigning being asleep in a crowded casino.
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* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street and Smith. Be that as it may, it's fairly certain that Nick Savoli and Mike Borrango can only be Al Capone and Frank Nitti, while their nemesis Mike Larrigan is Bugs Moran, an Irish mobster who was Capone's arch-enemy. "Machine-Gun" MacGinnis might be Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, top Capone assassin. Tony Accardo might have provided the inspiration for the "Homicide Twins" Gennaro and Anelmo.
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* MookHorrorShow: Hymie Schultz and "Four-Gun" Spivak are treated to two showings -- both thanks to [[spoiler: The Shadow as Monk Thurman]].
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street and Smith. Be that as it may, it's fairly certain that Nick Savoli and Mike Borrango can only be Al Capone and Frank Nitti, while their nemesis Mike Larrigan is Bugs Moran, an Irish mobster who was Capone's arch-enemy. "Machine-Gun"MacGinnis [=MacGinnis=] might be Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, [=McGurn=], top Capone assassin. Tony Accardo might have provided the inspiration for the "Homicide Twins" Gennaro and Anelmo.
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street and Smith. Be that as it may, it's fairly certain that Nick Savoli and Mike Borrango can only be Al Capone and Frank Nitti, while their nemesis Mike Larrigan is Bugs Moran, an Irish mobster who was Capone's arch-enemy. "Machine-Gun"
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Essentially what the plot is -- The Shadow dismantles Nick Savoli's organization [[spoiler: from the inside out]] to avenge the death of Claude Fellows.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Essentially what the plot is -- The Shadow dismantles Nick Savoli's organization [[spoiler: from the inside out]] to avenge the death of Claude Fellows.Fellows.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Harry was literally seconds from spilling everything he knew about The Shadow after the brutal torture he was subjected to. Fortunately The Shadow shows up at that exact moment [[TheCavalry to rescue him.]]
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Harry was literally seconds from spilling everything he knew about The Shadow after the brutal torture he was subjected to. Fortunately The Shadow shows up at that exact moment [[TheCavalry to rescue him.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: The story proves that being one of the Shadow's agents does not confer immunity to bullets.
* BecauseImJonsey: The Shadow actually pulls this as a ruse to pull off a "two men in the same place" routine [[note]]He claims, as Monk, to have been cold-cocked by The Shadow to gain entry into the Homicide Twins' hideout.[[/note]]
* BecauseImJonsey: The Shadow actually pulls this as a ruse to pull off a "two men in the same place" routine [[note]]He claims, as Monk, to have been cold-cocked by The Shadow to gain entry into the Homicide Twins' hideout.[[/note]]
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* DevelopmentGag[=/=]LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Again, as in ''The Living Shadow'', mention is made of The Shadow broadcasting a radio show on Thursday nights, which just happened to be when the RealLife ''Detective Story Hour'' hosted by James LaCurto as... you know who... aired. This radio show [[TheRedStapler prompted the creation of]] ''The Shadow Magazine'' and early stories published during the original run of the show mentioned this.
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* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street and Smith.. Be that as it may, it's fairly certain that Nick Savoli and Mike Borrango can only be Al Capone and Frank Nitti, while their nemesis Mike Larrigan is Bugs Moran, an Irish mobster who was Capone's arch-enemy. "Machine-Gun" MacGinnis might be Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, top Capone assassin. Tony Accardo might have provided the inspiration for the "Homicide Twins" Gennaro and Anelmo.
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* LatexPerfection: The Shadow uses this to disguise himself as [[spoiler: Monk Thurman]] and an elderly gambling-house patron.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: The Shadow sets one of these up between Savoli and Larrigan, by using himself as the bait -- twice.
* TheMole: Both Harry Vincent and [[spoiler: The Shadow himself]] infiltrate Savoli's operation.
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street andSmith..Smith. Be that as it may, it's fairly certain that Nick Savoli and Mike Borrango can only be Al Capone and Frank Nitti, while their nemesis Mike Larrigan is Bugs Moran, an Irish mobster who was Capone's arch-enemy. "Machine-Gun" MacGinnis might be Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, top Capone assassin. Tony Accardo might have provided the inspiration for the "Homicide Twins" Gennaro and Anelmo.Anelmo.
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: Savoli and Larrigan make peace, cementing it with both Monk Thurman and The Shadow's blood ([[spoiler: They're both one and the same, and guess who actually ends up dead by the end of the novel.]]).
* RippedFromTheHeadlines[=/=]VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story was written only two years after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and provided readers some escapism where they could see Al Capone and co. get the kind of justice they deserved in RealLife.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Essentially what the plot is -- The Shadow dismantles Nick Savoli's organization [[spoiler: from the inside out]] to avenge the death of Claude Fellows.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: The Shadow sets one of these up between Savoli and Larrigan, by using himself as the bait -- twice.
* TheMole: Both Harry Vincent and [[spoiler: The Shadow himself]] infiltrate Savoli's operation.
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street and
* ReconcileTheBitterFoes: Savoli and Larrigan make peace, cementing it with both Monk Thurman and The Shadow's blood ([[spoiler: They're both one and the same, and guess who actually ends up dead by the end of the novel.]]).
* RippedFromTheHeadlines[=/=]VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story was written only two years after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and provided readers some escapism where they could see Al Capone and co. get the kind of justice they deserved in RealLife.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Essentially what the plot is -- The Shadow dismantles Nick Savoli's organization [[spoiler: from the inside out]] to avenge the death of Claude Fellows.
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Nick Savoli's men picked the wrong insurance broker to rub out when they killed Claude Fellows. As one of the Shadow's agents, he personally goes on a rampage through the Chicago underworld.
* ColdBloodedTorture: The Homicide Twins engage in a bit of this against Harry to make him talk. At first they don't even bother to ask any questions of him, making the torture at first border on ForTheEvulz.
* DistressedDude: Harry Vincent, ''[[OnceAnEpisode yet again.]]''
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street and Smith.. Be that as it may, it's fairly certain that Nick Savoli and Mike Borrango can only be Al Capone and Frank Nitti, while their nemesis Mike Larrigan is Bugs Moran, an Irish mobster who was Capone's arch-enemy. "Machine-Gun" MacGinnis might be Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, top Capone assassin. Tony Accardo might have provided the inspiration for the "Homicide Twins" Gennaro and Anelmo.
* ColdBloodedTorture: The Homicide Twins engage in a bit of this against Harry to make him talk. At first they don't even bother to ask any questions of him, making the torture at first border on ForTheEvulz.
* DistressedDude: Harry Vincent, ''[[OnceAnEpisode yet again.]]''
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Chicago Outfit Members Were Harmed]]: Since this novel was published in 1931, while most of the RealLife gangsters were at liberty, this was most likely editorially enforced so as not to bring down the murderous wrath of the entirety of the Chicago mobs on Street and Smith.. Be that as it may, it's fairly certain that Nick Savoli and Mike Borrango can only be Al Capone and Frank Nitti, while their nemesis Mike Larrigan is Bugs Moran, an Irish mobster who was Capone's arch-enemy. "Machine-Gun" MacGinnis might be Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, top Capone assassin. Tony Accardo might have provided the inspiration for the "Homicide Twins" Gennaro and Anelmo.
