Download The Spider #2, November 1933: The Wheel of Death AudioBook Free
Mysterious loss of life, suicide, and madness took uncanny toll of New York's most dominant people. Only the Spider sensed the occurrence of the unlawful genius whose tentacles were strangling the location - and the Spider was next on the crime monster's loss of life list! Here is the second and final Spider novel penned by the inexplicable R.T.M. Scott. To this day, over 80 years later, the mystery of Scott's departure remains unsolved. R.T.M. Scott was a famous byline in the 1920s and '30s, the writer of some hardcover novels having advanced detective Aurelius Smith and his Hindu aide, Langa Doonh. They were the template for Richard Wentworth and Ram memory Singh. But there were two R.T.M. Scotts, dad and son. Plus the son worked well for Popular Magazines under the name Maitland Scott! So, which Scott initiated the Spider series? One of the more intriguing ideas posits that R.T.M. Scott Senior penned The Spider Hits and, having kicked off the series in grand style, handed it off to his child, who was 24 in those days. Whatever the case was, neither man was likely up to the job of writing a monthly pulp novel. Enter Norvell Page. The Steering wheel of Loss of life is a crime story set in NEW YORK and revolves around a peculiar after-hours nightclub catering to the elite. Donning the disguise of the solidified gangster, Dick Wentworth, alias the Spider, penetrates this place, and allies himself with Molly Dennis, a woman whose dad sits on Loss of life Row, awaiting execution for a crime he might not exactly have committed. What is the secret of Grogan's Restaurant? Can he unravel a web of blackmail without revealing that Richard Wentworth is secretly the Spider? Nick Santa Maria reads this interesting suspense tale of murder, mayhem, and mystery that flawlessly evokes 1933 Manhattan. Originally printed in The Spider magazine, November 1933.
