Blackie and Red were running away from the orphanage when they were found by Andy Connell. He offered them a home with him and his wife.The boys were as different as the color of their hair, and each had his own approach to getting ahead in the world. Blackie scorned Red's proud determination to be his own man. And, when Andy Connell struck it rich, Blackie just knew that life was going to give him everything he deserved.

Tom Converse was the kind of man to pull a Colt from his back pocket faster than the seasoned gunslingers could draw from a hip holster. It seemed to come easy to him—like breathing in and out. But was he also the kind of man to make a whole town trigger-happy with fear? Did he hide behind a dark mask and come back for vengeance?Was he The Shadow? Sylvia didn’t think so. “I’m the only one who knows the face of the real Shadow,” she said. A dappled chestnut with black points is the ...