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The Spider #113 Audiobook
Secret City of Crime
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Nowhere in all the world is there a street so viciously bizarre as Easy Street. Buried deep in the sub-basements of a great New York skyscraper is this carnival-like arcade of crookdom . . . where you can buy firearms, grenades, crackman’s tools . . . where there are schools to teach you how to commit murder — and get away with it! Go with the Spider as he crashes into this amazing backwash of crime — to learn of a massacre so bloody and gruesome that its success would shock even a war-torn world. . . . You’ve never before heard anything like it. And the Spider’s frantic efforts to save a train load of rush-hour subway passengers from destruction sets a new high in the Spider’s dramatic adventures!
The most compelling of the classic pulp heroes, Richard Wentworth had a fiancé, a coterie of equally committed aides, and a tense relationship with New York Police Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick, Wentworth’s best friend, but also a dedicated lawman sworn to send the Spider to the electric chair—no matter who he turns out to be.
These riveting stories ran the gamut of incendiary thrillers to ultra-violent showdowns between an obsessed superhero and his depraved arch-foes. With the repeal of Prohibition, wealthy gangsters are in search for new rackets. And standing ready to keep them in check, the dreaded Spider.
Nick Santa Maria brings the action to vibrant life, narrating with a fever-pitch intensity. Secret City of Crime originally published in The Spider magazine, February, 1943.
Chapter 1: The Spider’s Suicide
Chapter 2: Self-Help to Death
Chapter 3: Frame-Up
Chapter 4: Easy Street
Chapter 5: Murder Street
Chapter 6: Death Watch
Chapter 7: Commander of Hell
Chapter 8: The Trap
Chapter 9: Death’s Moment
Chapter 10: Murder Express
Chapter 11: Perfect Crime
Chapter 12: Cash for Corpses
Chapter 13: The Right to Die!
Chapter 14: Betrayal
Chapter 15: The Traitor
Chapter 16: The Red Pin
Chapter 17: Night of Doom
Chapter 18: Plan Seventeen
Chapter 19: The Tangled Web
Nick Santa Maria Nick was born early in life in Brooklyn, NY. His theatrical background is based in Comedy Improv. He was a long standing member of the late lamented Miami based, Mental Floss, where he served as head writer/composer. From there he began his career in commercials, voice-overs, TV, Film, and theatre. He has performed in many roles on the stage including his award winning turn as Nick in Over The River And Through The Woods, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, in The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee as Mr. Panch (3-D Theatricals), Mr. Bromhead in No Sex Please, We’re British at The Norris, and as Pseudolus in, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Norris Theatre. Television: The Buffalo Bill Show, B.J. Stryker, and two Disney Christmas Specials. Off Broadway: Writer/Composer/Performer on Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, Soundtrack on RCA Victor. Broadway: Vince Fontaine in Tommy Tune’s production of Grease. He also appeared in every domestic company of Mel Brooks’ The Producers, understudying everyone from Nathan Lane and Jason Alexander, to Tony Danza and David Hassellhoff. He was the original Genie in Disney’s Aladdin, a Musical Spectacular, soundtrack on Disney Records. Nick is a resident of Los Angeles and is currently writing a book about classic film comedians, Nick’s been a long time film historian, and has written several articles on the topic.
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