The Bells of St. Peter's, April 18, 1954

This is another review based on a script of the show, the original show apparently no longer existing. The main characters include Teresa, a housekeeper; Vittorio Scalza, an Italian movie director; Lydia Stevens, an American movie actress; Tony Fortunato, an American racketeer, and an Italian commissioner of police.

Teresa goes into an apartment she needs to clean, but finds it a mess with blood everywhere. Meanwhile, Margot wants to visit a movie studio and Lamont is with her. They enter an office and Vittorio is talking about his being ruined, and that his star is the woman who has disappeared from the apartment Teresa was going to clean.

Teresa did see one man come to see her, and that's Tony. Lamont and Margot go to visit Tony. Lamont claims to be a magazine writer, wanting to do a nice, positive article about Tony. Tony ends up making them leave his apartment. So far there's no solid evidence that would like Tony with the actress' death.

Lamont has Commissioner Weston cable him information on Tony, and finds out that the actress' daughter is married to Tony. They talk to the Italian police commissioner and find out the daughter/wife is dead, but there is a child from the marriage that is still alive.

Lamont and Margot go back to go through the actress' apartment looking for clues. They find sales receipts for things one would buy for a young boy, and then the actress reveals herself. She has been trying to find the child in order to take custody of him.

A short time later Tony is talking on a phone when he hears the voice of the Shadow. The Shadow actually convinces Tony to give up the child to the actress. The blood in the apartment, by the way, was Tony's; the actress hit him with a vase when he came to her apartment demanding information on his son, and she hit him and cut his arm. He's has hemophilia, which means he bleeds very badly from any cut.

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