Broadcast December 16th 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 (Dr. Jack Stillwell) John Gibson (Quonker Jackson and the clerk) Santos Ortega (Commissioner Weston and Nils Brand) Amzie Strickland (Hilda Bruce)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Captain Dan Bruce, the famous zoologist and animal collector, is found dead in his study. When the captain’s niece, Hilda, claims a murderer ran from the scene of the crime shouting the words, “Rose Kiss,” Lamont and Margot make a desperate effort to trace the whereabouts of the killer before wholesale murder occurs. Rose Kiss, otherwise known as parrot fever, is a plague worse than typhoid, carried by parrots, with no known cure. After many desperate attempts to track the man responsible for the recent shipment of tropical birds, The Shadow faces Nils Brand in a warehouse. Jack Stillwell arrives and confesses Dan Bruce did not die of a stroke — he was suffocated with a pillow. As The Shadow learns in the warehouse, Hilda committed the murder for her uncle’s money and made up the story of Rose Kiss to throw suspicion on Brand, who was paid for a recent delivery of healthy tropical birds. The Shadow overpowers Hilda, knocking the gun from her hand, ensuring her apprehension by the arriving police.
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