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The Spider #94 Audiobook
Murder's Black Prince
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Out of the mystic East came Lona Deeping, shockingly beautiful, warmly gracious, to win the love of Police Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick. No wonder Kirk refused to credit the Spider’s veiled hints — or Richard Wentworth’s open warnings — that Lona was the tool of The Man in the Cowl. For this new-style crime king made the act of murder sacred in the minds of the thousands who worshipped Kali in the strangest temple ever built in New York City!
The Spider did not speak lightly of evil. He was too gentle to blot the glamorous night with useless vaporings. But through years of ceaseless struggle and hourly danger—not alone from the Underworld but also from the police who considered his brand-marked executions of criminals only murder—he had developed an uncanny feeling like the sixth sense of bats. Flying in the dark, scarcely seeing, receiving an impact of air waves forewarning the animal of obstacles in its path. So something—thought waves?—warned the Spider of danger.
Once, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick ticked off a long list of suspects. Wentworth blurted out this self-revealing truth. “I’m suspicious of everyone,” he admitted, “even of myself sometimes.” And well he should be. For Richard Wentworth was an undiagnosed manic-depressive—if not paranoid schizophrenic—subject to violent mood swings, climbing to unutterable heights of exultation in one scene, then crashing into the blackest depths of despair the next.
This thrilling Spider audiobook features acclaimed voice talent Nick Santa Maria, who has made the Spider his own! Murder's Black Prince originally published in The Spider magazine, July, 1941.
Chapter 1: Death Wears a Cowl
Chapter 2: Try, Try Again
Chapter 3: Beneath the Cowl
Chapter 4: Blaze of Glory
Chapter 5: Woman of Mystery
Chapter 6: Strange Warning
Chapter 7: While Death Waits
Chapter 8: Nita Alone
Chapter 9: In the Trap!
Chapter 10: Murder Gale
Chapter 11: Gateway of Hell
Chapter 12: Brotherhood of Death!
Chapter 13: The Cowl Lifts
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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