1954-8-08 The Case of the Vanishing Killer

Broadcast August 8th 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 2017 &  in 2020

Written by: J.G. Leighton (a pseudonym of John Cole)

Announcer: Ted Mallie

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

Music: Charles Paul

Synopsis:

Tommy Hamlin, young man about town, has persuaded Margot and Lamont to help him follow a trail that might lead to his wife’s murderer. He was drunk the night she was killed and a witness named Rose Marcel, whom he picked up at the Gilded Cage, may substantiate his fears that he committed the crime. Hugo Kirk, a cheap crook who owns the bar and a casino in the back, shoots Rose Marcel — the only witness in the case — just as The Shadow is about to learn the truth. When Kirk picks up Tommy with intentions of eliminating the playboy, The Shadow arrives to save the kid and unearth the solution to the case: Kirk was the murderer. The crook wanted Mrs. Hamlin’s money, and when she would not divorce Tommy, he killed her in a fit of anger. Hoping to frame Tommy, who was too drunk to remember any of the evening’s events, he discovered Rose was a witness to the killing and figured Tommy also could take the blame for Rose’s death.

Read the script for this episode

Listen to the recreation made by The Ouray County Players 10-14-2020

Listen to the recreation made by The Shadow Radio Show Remastered 11-01-2017

Note:

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