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The Shadow - "Chess Club Murders" (Old Time Radio)
The Shadow presents “The Chess Club Murders,” originally broadcast February 23, 1941. Episode 216 finds Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane at the Black Rook Chess Club, in a Blue Coal-sponsored Mutual Broadcasting System production written by Jerry Devine.
A murder among the club’s competitive members draws Cranston into a tense investigation shaped by rivalries, a newspaper proprietor, and a manuscript that seems to echo the case. Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane.
The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual…
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