Broadcast August 31st 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: Stedman Coles
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
On a dark and stormy night, Lamont and Margot help Ruth Denby and her aunt who are stranded along the side of the road. Ruth’s husband Phil went to the old Moorehead Estate to phone for help but never came back. The unsolved murders of John and Lucy Moorehead ten years ago have earned the house a reputation of being haunted. In the cobweb-infested cellar of the old, abandoned home, Lamont is knocked unconscious and a dead body is found. When he wakes, Margot gives him the bad news — Ruth and her aunt have disappeared. Weston gets involved in the investigation and explains to Lamont that Phil Denby embezzled seventy thousand dollars from the bank where he works and hasn’t been seen since. Returning to the estate, Lamont and Margot investigate the secret passageways and find Peter Hill holding a gun on them. Peter was the caretaker for the Mooreheads. His mind snapped from his jealous love of the late Lucy Moorehead. Peter is reliving a murder he committed a decade ago — which was a flaw in Phil Denby’s plan, since he intended to use the house as a hiding place for the money he embezzled. The body was that of a hitchhiker used as an attempt to throw the police off while Phil and Ruth made plans to leave with the money. The Shadow appears and tricks Phil into wasting all his bullets so the three of them, now unarmed, can be turned over to the police.
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