Broadcast November 13th 1949 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and Grove Laboratories (Fitch Dandruff Remover Shampoo)
This is a lost episode and no recreation of it has yet been made. If you have a copy of the script please let me know.
Written by: Peter Barry
Announcer: Andre Baruch
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Elsie Thompson
Synopsis:
Artist Vincenzi Stella plans a masterpiece he calls “A Study of Three Dead Queens.” Longing for the perfect women to model for the painting, Stella employs Hugo, a waiter in the Muse Quarter district, to find single, beautiful women and lure them to Stella’s apartment. After each model is murdered so they can be positioned properly for the painting, Hugo disposes of the bodies. Angela Dean, the first of two dead models, was supposed to meet with Margot. Searching for the whereabouts of the young lady, Lamont and Margot discover something foul. The Shadow questions Hugo and learns how Stella wants a redhead, a brunette and a blonde for models. A redhead and a brunette have already been murdered but Margot is a blonde and when she meets the eccentric painter she becomes the next intended victim. An art dealer friend of Lamont’s, Terrence Marcey, saves Margot by wounding the painter and bringing her to his residence. Discovering that Marcey was using the lunatic to reproduce masterpieces that could be passed off as valuable paintings, The Shadow forces Marcey into a spot that can only mean escape by making a run for it. Stella arrives and kills Marcey, angry because of a lack of respect from the art dealer and because of the ruse in which he was forced to create the “masterpieces.”
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