First and last

"The fog was thick at the center of the bridge where the man stood leaning against the rail.  Although the streets of New York were scarcely a hundred yards away, he might have been in a little world of his own.  For the only light in the midst of that cloud of black night fog came from an arc light on the bridge."

The Living Shadow 1931

Walter B. Gibson aka Maxwell Grant

 

"Such was crime's pay-off.  Throbbing with parting echoes, The Shadow's final laugh seemed a knell for Hanneford Lang, he of the Whispering Eyes that now stared silent and sightless toward the dark sky of night."

The Whispering Eyes 1949

Walter B. Gibson aka Maxwell Grant