Chapter 1: What is the significance of 'The Shadow' in crime-solving?
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows.
The shadow, the serious character who devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town, student of science, and master of other people's minds. Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston is known to criminals and evildoers as the Shadow.
Never seen, only heard. As haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost. As inevitable as a guilty conscience. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs. Today's story, Murder...
In E-flat.
Chapter 2: Who is Lamont Cranston and what is his role?
Woo-hoo! Oh, my God! Eddie, look! Yeah? We've had Marge and Charlie sitting over there. Well done, one of it, isn't it? Hey, Charlie! Hiya, Eddie! Come on over here, you and Marge. Okay, come on, Marge.
Chapter 3: What events lead to the story of 'Murder in E-flat'?
Never expected to see them here. Well, hello, Helen. Hiya. Hiya. You got room for us? Oh, sure, sure. Hey, wait a minute. You, Marquette, what do you think of this band?
I'm worried. Boy, they're skinny butler, the hottest stuff in town. I'll still take Louis Traynor. Boy, that's my idea of a band. Oh, quiet now. Let's listen. All right. Bye-bye. Higher, silly boy, higher!
Higher, silly boy, higher!
Hello? Hello?
Chapter 4: What clues are discovered after the explosion?
Yeah, yeah, Chief. I thought I was cut off. Yeah, that's the place. That new swing joint on 50th Street. Yeah, the theater box. Oh, nobody seems to know what happened. The band was playing and the joint just blew up. We don't know yet how many were hurt. In English, they found a note named over the bar.
It doesn't make much sense, though. Read it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure here it is. It says, the only real music is the music of silence. Yeah, funny business.
Okay, I'll report back to headquarters as soon as the ambulance is coming.
Oh, go on, Henry. Pass that car in front.
But, my dear, I can't without crossing that white line and... Oh, now, then make him pull over.
Oh, Henry, blow your horn.
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Chapter 5: How does the concept of silence relate to the bombings?
But you're not supposed to blow your horn in the city, my dear.
You know that. The anti-noise committee said... I don't care what the anti-noise committee said. Blow your horn and make that fellow get over.
Just as you say, my dear.
Yes, officer.
I was driving about 50 yards behind their car. Yeah? They started to swing out of line and blew their horn, and then it happened. This awful explosion. I tell you, I've never in all my life... Where'd you get this note? After the explosion, I noticed it lying in the front seat beside me. Somebody must have thrown it in through the window. What do you suppose it means, officer?
Let's look at it again. Let this be a warning to you. Auto horns are playthings of the devil. Silence. What does it mean, officer? I don't know, mister.
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Chapter 6: What is the role of the tuning fork in the bombings?
But if I were you, I'd forget I had a horn.
You know, Margo, there's something very peculiar about these bombings. Mysterious explosions, I believe the paper here calls them. There was another one last night. You mean that freighter that blew up in the river?
Yes.
Yes, Lamont, I was reading about it. The paper says they found a note near to a nearby dock. Something about silence as the golden token of true peace.
Ah, this sounds like some crime.
Yes. Hard and sinister. Silence. That word has appeared in every note. Silence. The only other clue that has been found at all free bombings is a piece of U-shaped metal. Now, I wonder if... Margot.
Yes, Lamont?
You know what a tuning fork looks like, don't you?
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Chapter 7: How does the final confrontation unfold in the story?
Why, certainly. It's shaped like a U. Exactly.
A piece of metal shaped like a U. Look at this picture here in the paper. Divers found that in the hold of the bomb crater.
It certainly looks like a tuning fork, all right, but I don't see... Neither do I, Margot.
Yet I feel there's a link between the word silence, these tuning forks, and the bombings. Yes. And if there is a link, Margot... I've got a hunch that this city may be in for one of the most terrifying ordeals it has ever experienced.
Can you believe there'll be more of these awful bombers?
I don't know what to believe, Margo.
I don't know what... Non-stop plane to Chicago, now ready at gate four. Non-stop plane to Chicago, now ready at gate four. Goodbye, John. Don't forget to wire me. Bye, dear. See you Thursday. Bye, mother. Goodbye, son. I hope you have a smooth flight.
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Chapter 8: What is the resolution of the 'Murder in E-flat' case?
Shall we go, Mary? Let's wait, Mother. I love to watch them take off. John comes to wave from the plane. You go sit on this side. Well, just as you say, dear, but I must admit that the roar of those motors always makes me a bit nervous. There he is, Mother.
There's John.
Bye, John. Bye. Extra. Extra. Extra. Read all about the latest mystery bombing. Note warning silence found at Central Airport. Extra, extra latest mystery bombing.
Officer O'Grady found the bomb?
Yes, Commissioner Weston. It was stuck in a wretch's basket. And this note here was pasted on the police phone box next to the basket. I see it.
A war of traffic is a war of doom. Silence. Silence. Silence. Silence. I didn't say no words, but in every note we found. Yes, sir.
What's the laboratory report, Sergeant? What explodes a bomb? A bomb's attached to a photoelectric cell. One of these here. U-shaped pieces of metal like we've been finding in all the bombings. I see. Well, how's it work? Well, it's sort of like this, Commissioner. The laboratory says that this U-shaped piece of metal is a tuning fork, an E-flat tuning fork. Where is it?
Well, it's your tuning fork that's placed so that when the sound of these flats vibrates, it breaks the light beam of the photoelectric cell that's attached to the bomb. And when the light beam is broken, the circuit's closed, the bomb goes off.
I think I see what you mean. Just like your body breaks a light beam and opens the doors of somebody's new hotel.
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