1946-2-03 Murder With Music

Broadcast February 3rd 1946 on Mutual at 5:00 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 The Shadow: Radio's Greatest Man of Mystery

This episode was adapted and recorded for broadcast in Australia by Grace Gibson Productions and is included in The Shadow Volume 1

Written by: Joe Bates Smith

Announcer: Don Hancock

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Lesley Woods (Margot Lane)

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

A beautiful young actress drops dead at a private society party which Lamont and Margot attend. On the trail of a brutal killer, they stumbled upon a bloody-faced body in the closet of a hotel basement storage room. The solution to the mystery leads to Harriet Hamilton, the middle-aged wealthy patroness of the arts, who funded the party. The mind and force behind the murders, Harriet used the young concert pianist, Edward Milland, as a tool to kill the actress, and later an actor who feared he might be accused of the crime. During a confrontation, Milland kills Harriet, and Lamont attempts to apprehend Milland at the risk of his own life. Milland realizes he had murdered the one person who had made him strong.

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