The Shadow - Arthur STRINGER

A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way.
Arthur Stringer was a novelist, screenwriter and poet. He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other books in addition to writing numerous film scripts and articles. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Stringer_(writer)
This book is unrelated to the 1930s and 1940s pulp magazine and radio series of the same name. (Lee Smalley)