1946-12-01 Makeup for Murder

Broadcast December 1st 1946 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and syndicated for the summer by Goodrich Tires

This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD Set The Shadow: Strange Puzzles

Written by: Joe Bates Smith

Announcer: Don Hancock

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Grace Matthews (Margot Lane) Ted Osborne, Bernard Lenrow

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

In their attempts to solve the mystery of the strange deaths in a flophouse on notorious Beggar’s Row, Lamont and Margot find themselves in the room of Minnie, the owner’s wife.There they find the latest victim, a beggar named Smoky who attacks Lamont with a broken bottle. Smoky collapses and, finding ink markings on the bum, Lamont follows the trail to a scheme involving murder and robbery. Minnie’s husband is charitable toward the bums on the street while Minnie discovers which of them have stashed away their life savings. Upon finding that Minnie and her associate, The Professor, are giving the transients poison so they can steal their money, Lamont goes undercover as a bum named Flipper as bait for the killers. After knocking out The Professor and switching colored water for the poison, Lamont gives the police an edge in cracking the case.

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