1938-12-11 Murder by Rescue

Broadcast December 11th 1938 on Mutual at 5:30 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and syndicated for the summer by Goodrich Tires

This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD Set The Shadow: Crime Does Not Pay!

Written by:

Announcer: Ken Roberts

Cast: Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Agnes Moorehead (Margot Lane) George Coulouris,

Music: Rosa Rio

Synopsis:

One month before Warren Mitchell turns twenty-one and will inherit his late parents’ estate, Lamont and Margot vacation at Lamont’s private country home and discover a ghastly crime in the planning stages. Warren’s Uncle Claude, a professor of psychology, has been using a phonograph record of an automobile motor to hypnotize Warren. When Warren takes a walk down the country road and sees a life-size doll of a little girl and hears the engine sounds, he will rush out to save the little girl, becoming the victim of a hit and run. The uncle’s plans to inherit the estate, however, are foiled when The Shadow learns the details of the “murder by rescue.” While Margot prevents the young man from running into the road, The Shadow tricks Uncle Claude into believing he killed Warren. Discovering his scheme has been exposed to Warren, the uncle makes a daring break to avoid the law and drives over the cliff to his death.

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