1941-10-19 The Hoodoo Ship

Broadcast October 19th 1941 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: Evil Lurks

Written by: Sidney Slon and/or Peter Barry

Announcer: Ken Roberts

Cast: Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane)  Alan Reed, Arthur Vinton, Kenny Delmar, John Brown, Paul Huber

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

While plying between Africa and America in 1850, the crew of a slave ship known as “The Raven” was almost caught in possession of a cargo of native slaves. The crew dumped the slaves overboard and almost every voyage after proved haunted when a crewmember suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. Men refused to sail her, but in the first voyage since being harbored twenty years ago, Lamont and Margot sail as passengers in an attempt to dismiss the haunted stories. When Captain Flanagan’s dead body is found, Lamont suspects an ulterior motive, and as The Shadow, saves the next intended victim, Mr. Carew, from the same fate. The method of murder was a deadly poison, administered by a sharp steel needle on the end of a silk thread. The guilty party was Rock, who had been hired by a rival business concern to ruin Carew. Having heard the rumors of the haunting, Rock reproduced the same scenarios and cleverly began what could have become a series of murders, allowing the authorities to later lay blame on the haunted legends.

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