"Come, commissioner, you can't really believe I murdered Grenshaw and Naseby? Talk to Dorgan again, and that chap who operated the cloak room at the Argonne. You'll find them both reliable." - The Shadow
A fantastic smuggling scheme involves The Shadow in his most dangerous assignment - to solve the secret of twelve, glowing tears!
A bit of foreshadowing from Gibson in this one.
'Author Walter Gibson inserted a little "inside" joke into this novel. A minor character - the cloak room attendant that Lamont Cranston is accused of binding and gagging - is named Elliott Bruce. This name is a reversal of one of Gibson's closest friends, and fellow magician, Bruce Elliott.
Little did Gibson realize at the time that slightly more than a year hence, he would leave Street & Smith, publishers of The Shadow, and be replaced by Bruce Elliott. Elliott would be the sole author of The Shadow pulps for the two years between 1946 and 1948. How competent a replacement Elliott turned out to be, is a matter for discussion elsewhere. Let's just say his work was uninspired.' - John Olsen
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