Broadcast January 24th 1954 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Camel Cigarettes) and Proctor & Gamble (Tide Detergent)
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: Judith and David Bublick
Announcer: Ted Mallie
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Lamont and Margot’s vacation in the Italian city of Florence is interrupted when they pick up the case of a murdered violinist and a missing Stradivarius. Discovering that the cousin of the murdered man had dealings with a Hans Gruber, they begin their investigation by visiting the various violin and antique shops of Florence. The two are brutally assaulted in the streets when they come too close to the identity and motive of the killer. The Shadow apprehends the guilty party just as Margot and an American tourist named Ralph Dawson are about to become Gruber’s latest victims. Knowing that sending a real Stradivarius across the border would have been a problem, Gruber plotted to sell it as an inferior replica to an American tourist. A famous violinist helped him alter the original repositioning the fingerboard and smearing on a temporary varnish that could be removed and repaired within a couple days back in America. He killed the violinist after the job was done and, until the Shadow interfered, expected to steal the violin from the tourist.
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