Broadcast November 9th 1952 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)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Harvey Morland, the notorious “Collector of Death,” is the proud owner of a private wax museum displaying gruesome murder scenes that gripped readers of past newspaper headlines. At Morland’s request, Lamont and Margot drive north and east to his crazy granite mansion in the Old Dutch Mountains. Ten years ago, Margaret Quentin was found dead of an apparent suicide — her body found in the glass pergola. Charles, her widower, covered up the true facts of the crime; his young daughter shot her while playing cowboys and Indians. Charles faked the evidence at the crime scene to make it appear a suicide. Morland created a wax reproduction of the exact murder scene and invited Charles Quentin, his now-grown daughter Alice and her husband, Dan Gabriel to see it. It is Morland’s hope that the exhibit will reveal the death was not suicide — but murder — by forcing the guilty party to overlook a detail in the exhibit. The unveiling throws Alice into a nervous disorder, prompting her to go on a killing spree which includes Morland’s two servants (who formerly served Quentin). As a criminologist, Lamont was invited to witness the event. With the assistance of Margot, The Shadow seeks out Alice who remains in hiding like a scared little girl. With The Shadow’s interference, the real murderer, Charles Quentin, is exposed into a confession. Charles killed the servants because they knew too much about the crime and was hoping Alice would take the blame and guilt again as she had ten years before.
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