Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shadow Laughs! | 1931 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 2 | The Black Master | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 3 | The Mobsmen On The Spot | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 4 | The Crime Cult | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 5 | The Blackmail Ring | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 6 | Green Eyes | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 7 | The Ghost Makers | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 8 | The Romanoff Jewels | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 9 | Kings Of Crime | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 10 | The Shadow’s Shadow | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 11 | Six Men of Evil | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 12 | Fingers of Death | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 13 | Murder Trail | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 14 | The Silent Death | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 15 | The Golden Grotto | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 16 | The Death Giver | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 17 | The Silver Scourge | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 18 | The Isle of Doubt | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 19 | The Grove of Doom | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 20 | Master of Death | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 21 | The Death Triangle | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 22 | The Killer | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | N/A |
| 23 | Treasures of Death | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 24 | The Wealth Seeker | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 25 | Gray Fist | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 26 | The Circle of Death | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 27 | The Green Box | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | N/A |
| 28 | The Cobra | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 29 | Crime Circus | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 30 | Tower of Death | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 31 | Death Clew | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | N/A |
| 32 | The Crime Crypt | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 33 | Chain of Death | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 34 | The Crime Master | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 35 | Spoils of The Shadow | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 36 | Zemba | 1935 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 37 | The Voodoo Master | 1936 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 38 | The Broken Napoleons | 1936 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 39 | Partners of Peril | 1936 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 40 | The Isle Of Gold | 1939 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 41 | Return of the Shadow | 1963 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 42 | The Shadow Strikes | 1964 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 43 | Shadow Beware | 1965 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 44 | Cry Shadow! | 1965 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 45 | The Shadow’s Revenge | 1965 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 46 | Mark Of The Shadow | 1966 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 47 | Shadow - Go Mad! | 1966 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 48 | The Night of the Shadow | 1966 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 49 | Destination: Moon | 1967 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 50 | Eyes of the Shadow | 1931 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 51 | Gangdom’s Doom | 1931 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 52 | The Living Shadow | 1931 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 53 | The Red Menace | 1931 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 54 | Dead Men Live | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | N/A |
| 55 | Death Tower | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 56 | Double Z | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 57 | Hands in the Dark | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 58 | Hidden Death | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 59 | The Five Chameleons | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 60 | The Silent Seven | 1932 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 61 | Mox | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 62 | Road of Crime | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 63 | Shadowed Millions | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 64 | The Black Hush | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 65 | The Crime Clinic | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 66 | The Ghost of the Manor | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | N/A |
| 67 | The Living Joss | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 68 | The Red Blot | 1933 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 69 | Charg, Monster | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 70 | Gypsy Vengeance | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | N/A |
| 71 | The Black Falcon | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 72 | The Embassy Murders | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | Buy |
| 73 | The Key | 1934 | Dennis Lynds | N/A |
Dennis Lynds’ Shadow: The Master of Darkness is a massive 73-book crime fiction series that spans from 1931 to 1967. The series launched with The Shadow Laughs! and produced the bulk of its titles during the early 1930s, with dozens of books appearing in 1932, 1933, and 1934 alone. Titles from that era include The Black Master, The Crime Cult, Green Eyes, and Kings Of Crime, among many others.
After a concentrated run in the 1930s that included entries like The Voodoo Master (1936) and The Isle Of Gold (1939), the series went quiet for over two decades. It returned in the 1960s with books like Return of the Shadow (1963), The Shadow Strikes (1964), and Cry Shadow! (1965), eventually wrapping up with Destination: Moon in 1967.
With 73 entries, this is one of the longer-running crime fiction series around. Readers who want to follow the full arc should start with The Shadow Laughs! and work forward in publication order, though the sheer size of the series means most readers will dip in and out rather than read every book straight through.