What happens
Lamont Cranston, a wealthy man about town, learns that District Attorney Stowe was threatened by a convicted killer, Peter Swift, who was hanged six months earlier. Margo Lane hears of a grave being opened and a body taken away, and she and Cranston begin to investigate. Their inquiry leads them to Dr. Craig, who had collected Swift's body from the prison. The episode is part of The Shadow series, broadcast on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first aired on October 17, 1937, with Orson Welles as the lead.
A city in America in the 1930s, including a courtroom, a judge's library, a prison, and a doctor's office.
Characters: Lamont Cranston, Margo Lane, District Attorney Stowe, Peter Swift, Judge Klein, Dr. Craig, Taylor, Jenkins
Listen for: The sinister doctor's claim to have discovered a secret of life over death, and the threats made against the men who sent Peter Swift to the gallows.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.