The Secret 6 Audiobook - #1 The Red Shadow

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The Secret 6 #1 Audiobook

The Red Shadow

by Robert J. Hogan

Read by Michael C. Gwynne

Popular Publications publisher Harry Steeger and writer Robert J. Hogan had scored a hit with G-8 and His Battles Aces in 1933. A year later, they put their heads together and concocted a crime series with a fantasy flare. They called it The Secret 6!

Steeger always credited the successful Park Avenue Hunt Club stories running in the pages of Detective Fiction Weekly as his main inspiration. But the types of stories he asked Robert J. Hogan to write smacked of the one and only Doc Savage. In a sense, The Secret 6 was a take off of Doc Savage and his men—but without the superhuman aspects of Doc. The title was lifted from a 1931 crime film. To insure that the first issue sold like hotcakes, they stole a little more of Street & Smith’s thunder by titling that debut novel The Red Shadow.

The premise was simple. Framed for the crimes of the diabolical Red Shadow, a mystery man with a haunted past calling himself King breaks out of the Death House. Scouring the Underworld, he assembles a team of shadowy specialists who dedicate themselves to hunting down The Red Shadow. But The Red Shadow conceals a secret even The Secret 6 doesn’t suspect!

One major clue can be found in a list of the members of this new crime-busting organization: King, The Doctor, The Professor, The Key, The Bishop, Shakespeare and Luga. Yes. Seven men have banded together to become the fearless fugitives operating outside the law known as—The Secret 6! One will not survive…

Only four issues of The Secret 6 were ever published. But what a glorious run! The Red Shadow was followed by House of Walking Corpses, The Monster Murders and The Golden Alligator. Each succeeding novel was more fantastic than the one before.

The Red Shadow is narrated with the headlong velocity of a locomotive by Michael C. Gwynne.

Chapter 1: The Death House

Chapter 2: Prison Break
Chapter 3: End of the Road
Chapter 4: The Bishop
Chapter 5: Death Wings
Chapter 6: The Crimson Man
Chapter 7: Devil’s Trap
Chapter 8: Under Arrest
Chapter 9: A New Recruit
Chapter 10: Ghosts Walk
Chapter 11: Hidden Laboratory
Chapter 12: Fugitive’s Hideout
Chapter 13: Vanished Men
Chapter 14: The Red Shadow Hovers
Chapter 15: Killer’s Boomerang
Chapter 16: Corpse Ride
Chapter 17: Dead Man’s Shoes
Chapter 18: Death Role
Chapter 19: Flo
Chapter 20: The Scarlet Net

Michael C. Gwynne's outstanding achievements have encompassed all areas of entertainment – radio, television and film. Through out the sixties Michael could be heard as a DJ in San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles. Shortly after breaking the Guinness Book of Records for nonstop drumming, 92 hours at the 1965 "Drum-A-Thon" in Honolulu, Michael was cast in the TV series The Psychiatrist by a young Steven Spielberg.

Michael went on to work behind the scenes on Spielberg's breakthrough film Jaws where he can be heard as the DJ on beach radios. He continued to land roles in popular television shows: Kojak, Dallas, CHiPS, Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, and Falcon Crest before he crossed paths again with Spielberg when he was cast in an episode of Amazing Stories directed by Martin Scorsese.

Although Michael has worked steadily as a character actor in television and film over the last three decades his first love is still radio where he enjoys the challenges of a fast paced production, bringing a character to life with nothing but his deep thrilling voice!

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Wonderful Recording of a Rare Pulp Title	January 23, 2023
Reviewer: Peter McGarvey from Toronto, ON Canada

The narrator is excellent a produces a wide range of voices and accents.
The story, true to form, rips along in true pulp fashion. Though it wants to emulate a Doc Savage type adventure, THE RED SHADOW falls a little short. However, it is a fun read (listen) and is well worth the money.

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	June 25, 2022
Reviewer: Paul DePastine from Smithfield, RI United States

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Secret 6 Audiobook #1 The Red Shadow	February 5, 2019
Reviewer: Gerida Brown from Houston, TX United States

As always recording quality is great for all the stories. Reading professional and spirited.

Thanks for the for G8. I tried one just for fun. Can't wait to hear what the weird delivery device will be for the gas, bomb, poison, etc.

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