Chapter 1: What is the premise of 'The Shadow' and its significance?
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows.
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The Shadow Lamont Cranston, a man of wealth, a student of science, and a master of other people's minds, devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty. Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston is known to the underworld as the Shadow. Never seen, only heard.
As haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost. As inevitable as a guilty conscience. Today's story, Traffic in Death.
Where is my son? He was completely recovered. You were going to let him out of the sanitarium today. What's happened?
According to the reports, he suffered a relapse in the night and died. I'm sorry.
Dead? Dead? But how?
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Chapter 2: How does Lamont Cranston become involved in the mystery?
That's what I hope to find out. Well, here's the sanitarium. Come along. I'll explain on the way up to his office. He's waiting. Here. Thank you. Let me help you out of the car.
Thanks, Lamont. He isn't afraid of being murdered. Not in a big sanitarium like this with his staff all around him.
Caesar was murdered while surrounded by his staff, Margot.
Oh, then Dr. Lee's afraid of one of his associates. So that's why he hasn't called in the police.
Exactly. He hasn't enough proof to arrest the man. And he doesn't want the sanitarium involved in a public scandal. But there's more to it than that. This way, Margot.
What else is there? Murder.
Murder. Wholesale murder. Wait a minute, Margo.
Oh, nurse. Yes, sir.
I'd like to see Dr. Lee. He's expecting me.
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Chapter 3: What clues point to a potential murder at the sanitarium?
Oh, I beg your pardon, Doctor. I thought you were alone. Did Dr. Lee send for you? Yes, sir. I'm hardly in charge of the laboratory. Why? What's wrong? Dr. Lee. Dr. Lee. He... He's dead. Who are you? What are you doing here? How did this happen? How did what happen? I beg your pardon, sir. I only meant... I thought he was in perfect health less than an hour ago.
I couldn't help thinking... A surgical knife can save a life or end it in an instant. Look in his back. Knife? Who are you? What are you doing here? I am Lamont Cranston, a friend of Dr. Lee's. I talked to him on the phone an hour ago. I arrived a few minutes ago and found him dead. Why haven't you notified the police? How do you know I haven't, Mr. Hardwick? Just how long have you been here?
Not long enough to have killed Dr. Lee, as your cross-examination seems to infer. No? We'll see what the police think. Hello? Hello, operator.
Get me police headquarters, quick. Cranston, Dr. Lee has been dead less than five minutes. And I find you here alone with him.
Not quite alone, Mr. Hardwick.
Who is this woman?
Why was she hiding? This young lady is Miss Lane, Mr. Hardwick. Hello? Hello? Hurry up that call, operator. Police headquarters? This is Mr. Hardwick of the Memorial Sanitarium. Dr. Randolph Lee, chief of staff, has been murdered in his private office. I... I found a man named Cranston and a girl alone in the room with the body.
Yes.
Yes. I'll see they don't leave before your men arrive. Very well done, Hardwick. The police will get the truth out of you when they get here. Yes, Hardwick. The truth will out. And when it does, someone will hang for this.
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Chapter 4: Who are the key characters involved in the investigation?
Why didn't you tell Commissioner Weston? Because there are two pieces of the puzzle still missing. The criminal and the motive. I see. Well, if you will wait here, I may have something in my laboratory that will complete the picture for you. I'll take Lee's private elevator and be back in a moment. We'll wait here.
Lamont, you act as if you suspect Mr. Hardwick.
I do, Margot.
Then why did you let him leave? If he's guilty, he'll run away.
No, Margot. If he's guilty, he'll come back and try to kill us for the same reason Dr. Lee was murdered. We know too much.
What are you going to do? Call Commissioner Weston?
No, Margot. Weston is only concerned with Dr. Lee's death. I want to know how those six helpless patients died and why. I think the time has come for the shadow to take a hand.
Can I help, Lamont?
Yes. If you're game to stay here and wait until Hardwick comes back.
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Chapter 5: What evidence suggests foul play in the deaths at the sanitarium?
Lamont Cranston will be back in a few minutes.
And when he does come back, I will boast to him.
Satisfy his meddling curiosity as I've satisfied yours. And then kill him in the same way I killed the others. And you... You can't get away with it. In our basement morgue, the unidentified dead come from the emergency ward. Two more bodies. Yours and Mr. Cranston's will go to the morgue unnoticed. There's no use backing away, Miss Lane.
And you call yourself a scientist. You're no scientist. You're a butcher.
It is useless to scream. This office is soundproof, isolated.
How convenient for you, Mr. Hardwick.
You keep looking around as if expecting help, but don't bother. I'm going to take you out of here before your friend Cranston returns. Then I will come back and deal with him.
You're not taking me anywhere.
I wonder what type of blood you have. Don't worry. There'll be no pain. The anesthetic will take care of that. Now, you might as well resign yourself to fate, Miss Lane. No one is going to come out of space and save you. Such things have been known to happen, Mr. Hartwick. What was that? Resign yourself to fate, Hartwick. You are convicted by yourself. By your boasting.
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Chapter 6: How does the Shadow confront the murderer?
And you will go on paying.
Shadow, he's dead.
Yes, dead. And may heaven have mercy on his soul.
Well, Cranston, I hope this will teach you and Miss Lane not to keep things from the police. If you had told me about your phone conversation with Dr. Lee, this wouldn't have happened.
But Commissioner Weston... Hardwick might have escaped before you could find proof enough to arrest him.
Nonsense, Miss Lane. I suspected him all the time. Well, Commissioner, this is one case where you didn't need the help of the Shadow. The Shadow? He wouldn't have cracked this case in a month of Sundays. He's just another amateur criminologist like you, Cranston. I shouldn't be at all surprised. Before the shadow returns, John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert, has a few words for all of you.
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