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                                             May 20-27, 2008


  Maxwell Grant, "The Embassy Murders",
  "The Shadow Magazine," January 1, 1934


                  "The Embassy Murders" is interesting
                  for three reasons:

                  (1) it has a strong focus on South
                  American politics

                  (2) the villains communicate in "Agro"
                  "an international language", which
                  seems to be Esperanto seen through a        A glossary and
                  dark mirror.                                grammar of
                                                              Agro are included
                  (3) the head villain pretends to            in the story.
                  be an idealist working on a "peace
                  movement".                                     Yes kids,
                                                                 you too can
                     Perhaps a thinly concealed                  get Agro.
                     editorial about some actual
                     person?  Possibly, someone
                     like Nicholas Roerich?

                                        ROERICH

                                           REGES




        "The upper hemisphere of the huge globe had
        opened. Bobbing noiselessly from its interior
        was Thurk, the hideous dwarf. Poised, the
        monster was beginning his downward swing to
        drive his wicked, long-pointed knife toward
        the unprotected shoulders of The Shadow!"

                  Maxwell Grant, "The Embassy Murders" (1934)
                  Chapter XIX, "The Stroke of Death"


        Hey, politics is like that.



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