Broadcast March 23rd 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: Max Ehrlich
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Martin Blaine (William Morgan and Joe Wallace) Joseph Boland (Mr. Andrews) Santos Ortega (Charles and Commissioner Weston) Cameron Prud’Homme (Tom Peterson and Hugo Beasley) Evelyn Varden (Elizabeth Beasley)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Rumor has it there is something horrible roaming around graveyards, something that has already claimed the lives of three people, two of whom were gravediggers. Lamont and Margot investigate a restless statue atop a mausoleum and a pair of footprints on the road that go nowhere. While questioning the superintendent of the graveyard, Lamont learns the late Caleb Beasley, a wealthy eccentric, built the mausoleum. Beasley arranged for the construction of the mausoleum big enough to hold twenty millionaires, with several rooms inside, but he himself sleeps alone as the sole occupant. Late that evening, the sleuths investigate the tomb themselves and Margot meets Hugo Beasley, Caleb’s brother. Hugo. dressed in a white robe, imitated the removable statue on top of the mausoleum, using a noose to pluck his victims off the road and defy his brother’s dying wish of being the sole occupant — he’s been filling the tomb with others. Before Margot can be his next victim, The Shadow arrives to knock out the madman and use the rope to tie him up.
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