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.
This episode was adapted and recorded for broadcast in Australia by Grace Gibson Productions and is included in The Shadow Volume 2
Written by: Alonzo Deen Cole
Announcer: Ken Roberts
Cast: Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane)
Synopsis:
The physician of the Talbert family is shot to death and an image of a small black serpent placed in his dead hand. Suspecting the killer is a member of a devil worship religious cult in Arabia, Lamont convinces Commissioner Weston to join him and Margot at the Talbert residence to question members of the family. Burke, the chauffeur, is shot and wounded. John Talbert admits he has been working on a new sub-machine gun for the government but his wife, Ada, steals the gun, confessing she married him for his money. Young Tom, John’s son, committed the first two murders — Burke was attempting blackmail — and Ada taught her stepson about devil worship knowing his screwball mind would accept it. The Shadow reveals her involvement and, in desperation, she intends to shoot everyone in the room and plant Tom’s fingerprints on the trigger. However, The Shadow slipped a .30 shell into the .29 caliber chamber. Ada pulls the trigger, and the gun misfires, killing her.
Listen to the Australian broadcast
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