1951-11-25 The Sound of Dying

Broadcast November 25th, 1951 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic and Wildroot Cream 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: Alfred Bester

Announcer: Sandy Becker

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Martin Blaine (Jeremy Noyes and Eugene Dowler) Betty Garde (Miss Josephine Temple) Santos Ortega (Commissioner Weston) Luis Van Rooten (Henry and The Vizard)

Music: Charles Paul

Synopsis:

Eugene Dowler, Eastern supervisor of the Noyes Newspaper syndicate, lies torn and broken on the floor of his shattered apartment. Peter Cheyne, now dead for five months, phoned Dowler before the bomb went off. When a second murder of the same nature occurs, Weston and Lamont start looking for a dead man — the only clue being an imprint of a telephone dial imbedded on the corpses. Noyes covered up a murder on his yacht five months before and rewarded those on board with high-paying jobs and promotions for their silence. But Cheyne was murdered by Henry, wanting to eliminate witnesses before the body was found, proving he was guilty. The method of death was to pose as Cheyne and phone his victims while bombs were planted in their houses. Henry used an acoustical fuse — a small diaphragm that would vibrate in response to intense sound and touch off the explosives.

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