1942
THE CASE OF THE BLIND
SOLDIER
The Green Ghost (George Chance) investigates the bizarre murder of an army
Corporal. Agent Jeff Shannon of G-2 is also looking into the crime. Chance’s
aide Joe Harper seeks a lead at the Pink Rat. Commissioner Standish tells
Chance that Dan Fowler and his boys are moving in to clean up corruption at
Fort Dix.
Story by Tom Johnson in Exciting Pulp Tales, Altus Press, 2011. The
Green Ghost (aka simply the Ghost) appeared in the pulp magazine The Ghost
Super-Detective (later retitled The Ghost Detective and then Green
Ghost Detective), and was created by G.T. Fleming-Roberts. Jeff Shannon is
better known as the Eagle, who appeared in stories by “Kerry McRoberts” (Norman
A. Daniels) in Thrilling Spy Stories and Popular Detective. The
Pink Rat is an underworld dive bar from the Shadow novels. FBI agent Dan Fowler
was created by Major George Fielding Eliot, and appeared in the pulp G-Men
Detective. The year is conjecture, though the story explicitly takes place
during America’s involvement in World War II.
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