1954-7-04 Death by Chapter

Broadcast July 4th 1954 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Camel Cigarettes) and Harrison Products, Inc. (No-Doz Awakeners)

This episode is a lost episode, a recreation was posted to YouTube in 2019 & in 2020

Written by: Jerry McGill

Announcer: Ted Mallie

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)

Music: Charles Paul

Synopsis:

The editor and publisher of a half dozen crime and horror magazines asks Lamont to read the opening chapters to an unfinished manuscript submitted by one of his readers. Lamont agrees that this is not the work of a fiction writer trying to make his composition sound like fact, but is the work of a crackpot trying to make fact sound like fiction. Lamont and Margot set out to find Alvin Kane, the neurotic author who fancies himself a murderer being driven crazy by his shrewish landlady. Questioning Kane in private, The Shadow learns the author does, in fact, plan to commit murder — even shooting the police — so he can add more chapters to his story and submit it to the magazine. Realizing a strait jacket is the best course for Kane, The Shadow knocks the man unconscious and phones the police.

Read the script for this episode

Listen to the recreation made by The Ouray County Players 9-22-2020

Listen to the recreation made by The Shadow Radio Show Remastered 9-30-2019

Note:

The script for this episode was published in The Shadow Knows.