“Murder struck swiftly and silently. Woodward Avenue, Detroit, in the early evening, was among the widest, the most heavily traveled, and gayest of America’s greater city main streets. Yet death stalked without any fanfare, except for the single scream of a suddenly pallid-lipped woman, into the midst of the thronging pedestrians, the lines of motor cars. Swiftly and silently. And yet there had been warning of its approach. A warning known by few as yet, however, for it had come only minutes in advance of the evil climax. To some men in that vast industrial city there had come a voice over the humming telephone wires, a taunting voice out of the ether, one that the country was coming to fear. It had predicted murder–three murders, to be exact. It had come in the voice of an unknown who called himself the Murder Prophet, a man of mystery for whom a nation-wide search was being made by authorities of cities, states and nation as foremost in an adroitly publicized Fifth Column terrorism, and elusive Bund devoted to Kulturkampf which was boring into the heart of the national defense industries.” ~ “The Murder Bund” in Phantom Detective (April 1941)
Description “Murder struck swiftly and silently. Woodward Avenue, Detroit, in the early evening, was among the widest, the most heavily traveled, and gayest of America’s greater city main streets. Yet death stalked without any fanfare, except for the single scream of a suddenly pallid-lipped woman, into the midst of the thronging pedestrians, the lines of motor cars. Swiftly and silently. And yet there had been warning of its approach. A warning known by few as yet, however, for it had come only minutes in advance of the evil climax. To some men in that vast industrial city there had come a voice over the humming telephone wires, a taunting voice out of the ether, one that the country was coming to fear. It had predicted murder–three murders, to be exact. It had come in the voice of an unknown who called himself the Murder Prophet, a man of mystery for whom a nation-wide search was being made by authorities of cities, states and nation as foremost in an adroitly publicized Fifth Column terrorism, and elusive Bund devoted to Kulturkampf which was boring into the heart of the national defense industries.” ~ “The Murder Bund” in Phantom Detective (April 1941)
