1948-10-03 The Phantom Racketeer

Broadcast October 3rd 1948 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal"

This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD set The Shadow: Unearthly Specters

Written by: Frank Kane

Announcer: Andre Baruch

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Amzie Strickland (Margot Lane) Cathleen Cordell, Larry Haines, Adelaide Klein, Santos Ortega

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

Off the tip of the Florida coast is Ledar Key, a foreboding stone castle built by the former bootleg baron, Joe Perroni. Miss Manville claims the ghost of Perroni haunts the hallways, and Lamont dismisses her theories until they find the body of her maid, Hilstead. When the sleuths discover two shaggy culprits in the sub-cellar, Lamont attempts to wring the truth out of Kirk, but fails because Gonzales shoots his partner dead. The Shadow returns to the house to find Manville ready to shoot Margot — until he interferes. Manville purchased the seacoast residence after learning that the glass bottles of liquor actually contained narcotics worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. She attempted to double-cross the two gangsters and keep the money for herself. Thanks to the intervention of The Shadow, Margot is saved and the gangsters brought to justice.

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Note:

This episode would later be rewritten as “The Secret of the Grisly Coffin” broadcast on October 12th 1952.

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