A Tale of The Scarlet Spirit: In the Clutches of Convicts

By Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

After killing a prison guard, two convicts are on the run, and the vigilante known as the Masked Ghost is nowhere to be found. Margaret Randolph must once again become the Scarlet Spirit in order to capture them and save the life of her friend.

Welcome back to the continuing adventures of the Masked Ghost, Scarlet Spirit, and their friends.

This is a sequel short story to Broden's novel REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kevin Paul Shaw Broden
• Release date: Feb 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311890504

Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

Seeking a career in comic books, Kevin Paul Shaw Broden took art courses throughout his education - only to eventually discover that no matter what the media, he was a storyteller at heart. Kevin has been telling stories ever since. His first published story was a science fiction tale that appeared in his college newspaper. Since then he has written for television animation, including the Japanese series MIDNIGHT HORROR SCHOOL. Kevin is a member of the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild of America, west, and a supporter of Women in Animation. He also wrote a well-received chapter story online called REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST, which has since been collected online with accompanying illustrations as REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST: 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, along with a follow-up short story called "A Tale of The Scarlet Spirit: In The Clutches of Convicts". He hopes to do even more with these characters in the future. CLOCKWORK GENIE is Kevin’s first full-length novel, a paranormal romantic mystery originally debuting in late 2011 and re-released in a new edition in 2018, including new cover art. The CLOCKWORK GENIE MYSTERIES also includes a follow up short story called, "The Cop That Wouldn't Die: A Clockwork Genie Story". Additionally, Kevin's released short stories include the individually available titles "Murder on the Cosplay Express" and "No Easy Way to Die". For over the last fifteen years, Kevin has been illustrating and co-writing the online comic book FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY which can be found at http://www.flying-glory.com The premise is: the granddaughter of the World War Two super heroine Flying Glory, Debra Clay discovers she has inherited super powers and convince her high school friends to become heroes to help promote their rock band.

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A TALE OF THE SCARLET SPIRIT: In the Clutches of Convicts

By Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

Copyright 2016 Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

Smashwords Edition – First published February 2016

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Cover artwork by Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER

COPYRIGHT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A TALE OF THE SCARLET SPIRIT: In the Clutches of Convicts

AUTHOR'S NOTES – FRIENDS OF THE MASKED GHOST

ALSO BY KEVIN PAUL SHAW BRODEN

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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A TALE OF THE SCARLET SPIRIT: In the Clutches of Convicts

If a man were to enter here unaware, he might think that he had stumbled upon a torture chamber; here necks bent back to near breaking as scalding water and unknown chemicals poured upon heads. Further on, strange alien machines, right out of a H.G. Wells novel, clamped down upon other heads until brains fully baked.

Yet this was no torture chamber, and men very rarely entered this temple of beauty, otherwise known to the world as a hair salon.

Margaret Randolph and her friend Vivian Caldwell had standing weekly appointments at this salon just off 5th Avenue. There were another half dozen women, either under the driers leaning back into sinks getting their hair scrubbed, or waiting to be put through this torture for beauty.

I still can't believe you got your hair cut so short, Vivian said as they sat at adjoining sinks.

It was cut over a month ago, Margaret replied in exasperation, for her friend had been there when she had it done, and hadn't let up on the change since.

Yes, but you always had such luxurious flowing blonde locks.

Thank you, but it was getting to be so very unmanageable.

That's just the cost of being beautiful, Vivian argued while her own reddish auburn tresses were being scrubbed clean.

Unmanageable was true, but Margaret's friend didn't need to know why. Her hair now fit better under the red fedora and mask of the vigilante known as the Scarlet Spirit, the secret partner of the Masked Ghost

I think it is absolutely adorable, said Sally, who had been Margaret's hairdresser for the last couple years. The young woman whose own brunette hair was always perfect without a curl out of place, and the women here wished they were half as beautiful. It makes you look like Myrna Loy.

The actress? You really think so? Margaret glanced at herself in the mirror and smiled. Her husband Donald took her to see The Thin Man a while back and made a similar comparison.

I don't see it, Vivian looked over at her friend.