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Title: Maker of Shadows
Author: Jack Mann
Narrator: Milton Bagby
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-20-14
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Jack Mann, the author of Maker of Shadows and seven other novels starring Gregory George Gordon Green, known to most as "Gees" was actually a pseudonym for E. Charles Vivian, a well-known British author of supernatural, western, and detective novels. Making the Vivian pen-name even more interesting was the fact that it too was a pseudonym of Charles Henry Cannell, who wrote books, many about series characters, under numerous pen-names.
Born in 1882, Cannell died in 1947. At the time, he had written over 80 books, ranging from westerns (as by "Barry Lynd") to lost race adventures The City of Wonder, Fields of Sleep. His Gees's novels were so popular that several of them published in hardcover in England were later serialized in Argosy magazine.
As a young man, Cannell served as a British soldier in the Boer War. Afterwards, he worked for several years as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph newspaper. Deciding to become a novelist, Cannell switched to writing fiction in 1907.
The "Gees" series were Vivian's most popular novels. The stories featured a young, somewhat naive, British detective Gregory George Gordeon Green, known as "Gees" and delve into his various cases, most of which involve the supernatural. In this story, Gees is recruited by Margaret Aylener, the head of a major Scottish family. Margaret has been battling most of her life against Gamel Macmorn, supposedly the descendent of foreign invaders who enslaved and murdered the Scots. No one in the area knows how old Macmorn really is, as he seemingly possesses the power to regenerate himself at certain times after which he returns to his home as "his son."
Gees battles Macmorn and his ancient Druidic magic in a duel for the soul of Margaret Aylener's daughter, Helen. The evil Macmorn is not known as Maker of Shadows for nothing, and Gees find out just how true that menacing title really is. But Gees commands powers of his own Read by Milton Bagby.
Members Reviews:
The 5th Gees novel really gets into the supernatural
The 5th Gees novel really gets into the supernatural!
Gees, real name Gregory George Gordon Green. Created by British author and editor Charles Henry Cannell (1882-1947), better known by one of his pseudonyms E. Charles Vivian, but these appeared under his Jack Mann pseudonym.
There are 8 novels in the series. All eight are available from Ramble House in both paperback and hardcover.
We are introduced to Gees in "Gees' First Case". We learn his background: a former policeman who has quite to form his own detective agency, to the disapproval of his father, a general. His agency is just him and a secretary, Eve Madeleine Brandon. But there is no hanky panky there. Gees investigates anything from "mumps to murder," as his card says, and thanks to the funds he took from communist conspirators in the first story, he is free to take the cases that interest him.
In what is probably the most explicate occult case is "Maker of Shadows", where Gees goes up against a evil wizard Gamel MacMorn, a survivor of the "Azilian race". Gees is called in to help a Scottish family who has been fighting MacMorn off for generations. MacMorn has the ability to regenerate every so often, so he basically comes back as his "son."
The Azilian race is one that Cannell made up (he used the name of a real paleolithic culture), and they (or their descendants) will appear in further works.
