Download Spider #7 April 1934: The Spider AudioBook Free
When the underworld united in one compact military of criminal offense, the Spider - his prestige vanished - experienced the most vicious collection of scammers and degenerate killers ever before built under one dark banner of bloody communal war! How can Richard Wentworth, robbed of Kirkpatrick and Nita, renew the Spider-fear, which alone may bring him victory from a menace that is making casualty columns of our daily papers and filling our organizations with driveling patients of the new madness? "It's smart to be dopey!" This is the slogan dancing on the laughing lips of the so-called smart set in this hard-hitting Spider book. Based on the slang of 1934, "dope" stood for heroin. And a legal genius contacting himself the Bloody Serpent was its main pusher. With all the repeal of Prohibition, liquor is now legal. The speakeasies have reopened as respectable saloons. Bootleggers and their unlawful brewers have been thrown out of business. America is celebrating - but also searching for a new illicit kick. Amid this traditional upheaval, the Bloody Serpent senses a brand new opportunity. Organizing the New York underworld under his wicked banner, he starts a systematic plan to undermine rules and order - the better to push his narcotic wares on the city's gullible uppercrust. No wonder they called him The serpent of devastation! First, Commissioner Kirkpatrick is framed and disgraced. Then Nita van Sloan is kidnapped with the cruel motive of turning her into a pathetic dope addict. Bad guys, once cowing in terror of the Spider's magnificent wrath, now laughed at his name, their old arachnophobia vanished. That was when the Spider decided to shield himself with a new array of weapons - deadly devices so horrendous that they might re-inflict the dread that the master of men acquired built up in the legal underworld - and vowing to income "war to the hilt!" Nick Santa Maria reads this riveting Spider thriller. Originally printed in The Spider mag, April 1934.
