The Shadowby Maxwell Grant #1 - The Living Shadow  Originally published in The Shadow Magazine, April/June 1931 Out of the darkness came a being of the night to give Harry Vincent another chance; a chance to live his life with enjoyment, danger and excitement; a chance to risk it for an honorable cause in the service of the mysterious character known only as The Shadow!  Maxwell Grant's The Living Shadow is the first of the famous stories that made a household phrase of “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! ”Here is the sinister nemesis of crime in all his glory: swirling black cloak shrouding his body, black slouch-hat pulled low over his face, only a hawk-nose and two burning eyes visible beneath its brim, a forty-five automatic blazing death at the forces of villainy from each black gloved fist—while he makes a seemingly impossible escape as the crash of a burning building seems to spell certain death!In this celebrated tale, a decent young man named Harry Vincent is about to end his life over failed business ventures and the loss of his girl, when a mysterious figure in a dark limousine plucks him from the jaws of death and offers him a second chance to make good as a member of a secret network of crime-fighters.