THE
BLACK BAT AT BAY
Jim
Anthony comes out of retirement when he is tasked by the N.Y.P.D.
with capturing the Black Bat, who has been framed for murder. Anthony
was recommended to Commissioner Warner by FBI agent Dan Fowler, with
whom Anthony has worked before. Anthony also tells Warner, “A
famous member of my fraternity once said that pertinence is purely a
matter of perspective.” The Bat attacks a group of criminals at the
wrecked Comet Club, which was once owned by a man named Suydam, who
died in 1921 in the same fire that destroyed the club. Gangster
Gentleman Jack Schulz has a penthouse in the Shandor Building.
Short
story by Josh Reynolds in Black
Bat Mystery, Volume 2,
Airship 27 Productions, 2012. The Black Bat and Jim Anthony appeared
in the pulp magazines Black
Book Detective and
Super
Detective,
respectively. FBI agent Dan Fowler’s stories appeared in
G-Men Detective.
Fowler and Anthony previously met in Erwin K. Roberts’ story
“Neighborhood in Peril” and Reynolds’ tale “Proof of
Supremacy.” The fellow sleuth quoted by Anthony is either Sherlock
Holmes or C. Auguste Dupin. Suydam is a relative of Robert Suydam
from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook.” The Shandor
Building is from the movie Ghostbusters.
Anthony must have permanently resumed his adventurous career after
this, given his appearances in “The Carolingian Stone” and other
stories.
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