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Chapter 2 The Collapsing Room
Convinced The Whispering Shadow and his gang will attempt a raid on the transport warehouse police set up a trap and post guards on all sides of the building waiting and hoping to catch the shadow in the act. But when the warehouse alarm goes off the shadow is nowhere to be found but instead we see a struggle between Jasper Slade and Professor Stangs daughter each trying to steal a box of jewels that was hidden in the warehouse by Slade who originally stole them and has now escaped prison to claim his prize. After getting the better of Vera in the struggle Slade takes a hostage at gun point and orders him to drive him out of town he is sure he is away free but he is unaware that Jack Foster is in pursuit thinking he is chasing the Shadow. When Jack catches up with Slade the jewels are not in the box has Vera Strang fooled Slade and swiped the jewels from under his nose ? Jack heads straight to Strangs museum to catch the Professor and his daughter red handed and finally reveal the true identity of The Shadow but when he arrives Professor Strang is attacked and he finds himself in a very dangerous situation where his life and the life of Vera is about to be cut short.
With how fast paced Chapter 1 was i was expecting some slow down with the following chapter but i was mistaken there is not enough time to catch your breath the break neck speed continues with not sign of slowing down anytime soon. Like Chapter 1 we are treated once again to fist fights shoot out and more chases this time between a car and a motorcycle in which the stunt man travelling at some speed stands up on the saddle to jump into a speeding car and it looks fantastic. One downside this this second chapter is that its only 18:34 long and the first 5 minutes is spend recapping the last 5 minutes of chapter 1 but it does get straight into the action once the second part gets underway.
We see a little less of Lugosi in this chapter hopefully that will change as we progress along because his character and his wax figures is very interesting.
Tune in next time for Chapter 3
The All-seeing Eye