Two Envelopes And A Phone’s Reviews > The Shadow: Jade Dragon and House of Ghosts > Status Update

I enjoyed the first short novel in this book - Jade Dragon - much more than I thought it would, while dealing with what has not aged well (this is a 1940s novel set in San Francisco’s Chinatown). I loved the twist ending, which I was not expecting - though I had a slight feeling now and then that all was not quite so obvious. I need a short break from The Shadow, so I’ll side-step to Luke Short.

So, my only contact with The Shadow before this was one movie from the 1990s, and one 6-part comics mini-series that modernized things, and was a bit confusing. Already I like the first four chapters of this, more than anything else Shadow-related. I mean, we shall see - not-aged-well bits will likely leap out of the shadows. Meanwhile, it seems I have #6, of 300 specially printed hardcovers of this book.

So, I did my second trip down into the basement of a local Mystery-centric bookstore that has been around for 40 years, but likely will shut down for good in the near future. This particular hardcover is the priciest purchase I made this time around, and they have several other books from this series in storage (which I left behind for now). Mostly I bought cheaper mass market books that are out of print.