Broadcast December 7th 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: J.G. Leighton (a pseudonym of John Cole)
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Falcon Square is a sprawling, ramshackle district in the lower part of the city. No longer fashionable, its old brownstone buildings and rambling parks are occupied by the city’s poorer element. Three people are killed in the same section of Falcon Square and in the same terrible manner — beaten or strangled to death and scratched as if mauled by some animal. The newspapers are calling the creature “The Beast of Falcon Square.” The police pick up Arthur Wentz — alias Arty the Cat — but, without proof, they can only hold him for a short time. No sooner does Arty leave police custody than Margot becomes the fourth victim — saved in time by Lamont arriving at the scene. Suspecting unusual tenants in the same building in which Arty lives, Lamont makes Margot the prey in a game of cat and mouse that reveals Steven Laird as the guilty party. The Shadow prevents Steven from attacking Margot and then discloses the motive: Laird was a writer of adventure stories. He and his wife never hit it off and in his frustration he turned to the strongest thing he knew — the jungle cats he’s written about in his stories. Lamont refers to this as “schizophrenic manifestation” and Weston wonders how Lamont and Margot know an awful lot about the case.
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