When the narcotics-peddling Bloody Serpent and his army of pushers kidnap Nita van Sloan, Richard Wentworth goes on the warpath-as the Spider! Knowing that Nita's cruel captors intend to transform her into a debased drug addict, the Master of Men assembles a collection of fearsome weapons and equipment, then charges into the Underworld's secret crime nests to inflict terror on all criminals. Will Wentworth's need to save his belov ...
It began with the appearance of a creepily-gaunt apparition on the streets of New York. The Skeleton Man, they called him. A veiled figure as stark and unnerving as the Grim Reaper. Then, innocent citizens began dying like flies sprayed by DDT! Smokers. Drinkers. Even common coffee was laced with tasteless death. Into this living hell plunges Richard Wentworth, determined to root out the faceless terrorist behind the wholesale poisoning of every ...
Overnight, a bizarre crime wave had gripped New York, turning America's First Families into criminals who, for savage lawlessness, outdid the Underworld! Society's Four Hundred had now become a ghastly, blood-thirsting set of thieves and murderers. Embezzlements and bank frauds had terrorized Manhattan and pauperized a helpless people. In this topsy-turvy world of terror, Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, set out to save a betrayed civ ...
Never before had a shrewd criminal leader so successfully defied the Law – and the Spider's sure vengeance! A powerful Eastern murder syndicate, employing two deadly weapons, held America for ransom, spreading pain and terror and red destruction… Never had the Spider's struggle against the Underworld seemed so futile, for the name of Richard Wentworth was disgraced, his fortune was forfeit, and his beloved had betrayed him into the han ...
Never again would the Spider wage battle against crime – this Richard Wentworth had sworn to himself as he found sanctuary in a quiet rural retreat to nurse back to health the woman he loved. Yet, into that peaceful spot swept a whirlwind of horrible butchery like none he had ever seen – New York's sewers pouring out the Underworld's rabid hordes to engulf the countryside in a tidal wave of racketeer ruin! Whole towns were given their ...
For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. His face was unknown. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Now he's back in a series of riveting audiobooks adapting his most intense adventures from the pulpy pages of The Spider magazine, as chronicled ...
A shrill scream pierced the quiet night as the mighty Plutonic breasted the glassy waves. As if at a signal, countless passengers, young and old, men and women, were seized by an epidemic of frantic self-destruction. By water, fire, steel and lead they tried eagerly to hurl themselves into oblivion – into the greedy arms of Anubis, grim Egyptian deity of death! Richard Wentworth, who defended humanity in the guise of the dread Spider, recognized ...
No criminal dared testify against another, while the Whisper was crime-emperor of New York – and the forces of the law were powerless against the ravages of the Underworld! For when the Whisper's eerie warning fell over Manhattan men died, slashed to bloody bits by a weapon that was invisible but killed horribly! In that awestruck city of riotous crime, where a murmuring voice brought instantaneous death, Richard Wentworth, in the Spider&ap ...
By what strange twist of Fate did the fearful menace which was to shadow every man and woman in New York City first rear its venomous head in the distant Caribbean? When terror suddenly boarded a little tramp steamer and left crimson havoc littering its narrow decks a spluttering wireless flashed the doom of every living thing aboard. Within a week, the same ghastly fate struck a gigantic new ocean liner, its luxurious cabins occupied by the eli ...
