1948-9-26 Death is a Colored Dream

Broadcast September 26th 1948 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal"

This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD set The Shadow: Weird Adventures

Written by: Louis Vittes

Announcer: Andre Baruch

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow)  Grace Matthews (Margot Lane) Santos Ortega, Ralph Bell, Amzie Strickland

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

Mr. Venning of the firm of Thorncroft and Venning, has mysteriously disappeared. Venning’s newly-hired secretary, Mary Blake, visits Lamont and Margot to plead for help. She has been suffering from a series of wild, terrifying, full-color dreams. While The Shadow questions Thorncroft at the office, Margot chooses to stay with Mary and stumbles upon the body of Mr. Grimm. While the police suspect Mary of killing one of her employers, Lamont arranges a trap to expose the real killer. Confronted with the evidence, Thorncroft confesses that he was handling contracts that were illegally secured. He and Grimm murdered Venning and shipped his corpse in a trunk to South America. Unsure whether the secretary suspected the crime, they fed her the truth drug, Sodium Pentothal, which was the cause of her nightmares being in color instead of black and white. The Shadow laughs at Thorncroft after preventing the murder of Mary Blake. When the trunk is recovered, the police will get their man.

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