1940-1-21 The Precipice Called Death

Broadcast January 21st 1940 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: Dream of Death

Written by: Sidney Slon

Announcer: Ken Roberts

Cast: Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Dwight Weist

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

John Reynolds turns to Commissioner Weston for protection. His maid was attacked the night before by a gigantic hulk of a man. Notes left behind at the scene of the crime threaten the lives of John’s family, closing with “the precipice called death.” Commissioner Weston insists it was merely a robber who attempted to silence the screaming maid but when the body of John’s wife is found the police take John in as the prime suspect. The Shadow convinces Commissioner Weston to let John return home as bait in a trap to catch the real murderer. When a small, grotesque man named Tom Veitor appears at the Reynolds residence with the giant, the solution is revealed. Fifteen years ago, Veitor accidentally slipped from a cliff, leaving John with a fortune from a formula Veitor created. Now Veitor wants revenge. The Shadow finds himself facing an obstacle when the giant, under hypnosis and in the command of Veitor, cannot be blinded by Lamont. Before the giant can trap The Shadow, Margot fires a gun, accidentally shooting Veitor. No longer able to control the giant, Veitor finds himself the victim of his own instrument of evil.

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