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Maxwell Grant

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New York City, The United States

gender

male

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories

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Maxwell Grant was a pen name used by the authors of The Shadow pulp magazine stories.

Street and Smith Publications, the publishers of The Shadow, asked Walter B. Gibson, a writer hired to chronicle the Shadow's adventures, to create a pen name for the Shadow's author for several reasons, primarily so that numerous authors could be used to write the stories without confusing the readers. Gibson, who was also a nonfiction writer, wanted to use a pen name for his fiction. He adopted the pen name Maxwell Grant, taking the name from two magic dealers he knew, Maxwell Holden and U.F. Grant.

Three authors besides Gibson have used the Maxwell Grant pen name: Theodore Tinsley, who wrote 27 Shadow stories between 1936 and 1943; Bruce Elliott, who wrot...more

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Books by Maxwell Grant

Average rating: 3.79 · 819 ratings · 60 reviews · 108 distinct works

	The Living Shadow (The Shadow #1) by Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson 3.88 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1931 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Shadow Laughs! (The Shadow #3) 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1931	My rating:
	Double Z (The Shadow #5) by Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1932	My rating:
	The Death Tower 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1932 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Red Blot/The Voodoo Master: Two Classic Adventures of the Shadow 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Chinese Disks/Malmordo: Two Classic Adventures of the Shadow 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Eyes of the Shadow (The Shadow #2) by Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1931	My rating:
	The Red Menace (The Shadow #7) by Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1932	My rating:
	Green Eyes (The Shadow, #13) by Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1932	My rating:
	The Shadow's Shadow by Maxwell Grant, Walter B. Gibson 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1933 — 2 editions	My rating: