The Death Triangle, Dec. 12, 1937

(I like the guy that does the voice of the Shadow in these.) Blue Coal is also the sponsor again.

As usual, the show starts with a commercial for the coal that is colored blue, the cream of all Pennsylvania anthracite.

This starts in 1913 with someone sentenced to lashes in front of other prisoners in France. The guy vows to find the person who betrayed him.

A radio announcement comes on over organ music and says the Shadow has been found, and he was wounded. The guy left before the doctor could call the police.

Dr. Evans then gets a call from the real Shadow. The doctor admits that the statement he issued was false. He needs help from the Shadow. A friend of his has received a death threat. The doctor also has received a death threat.

Dr. Evans was once a political prisoner who escaped along with two other men. The fourth man that was caught and sent back apparently was betrayed by one of the three that got free, and has gotten free since then. The Shadow will help because of the value of the doctor.

All three men will stay at the same place, and the Shadow will join them that night.

Margo shows up looking for Lamont Cranston. She says she's got to find him. She goes to the doctor's office; she thinks that Lamont had really been shot; she doesn't know the story was a fake.

She gets a taxi to follow the doctor's car when he takes off for the meeting.

(The cab far is all of $5)

Lamont shows up at the place and Margo greets him. Lamont fills her in on what is going on. He tells Margo to wait in the car in case the police need to be called.

The three men that are targets are talking. Apparently there were two betrayals. The doctor tells the guys that the Shadow is going to come there that night.

The Shadow starts talking even though no one can see him.

The Shadow says he needs to know the whole story, the entire truth, if he is to help them. As he tells the story the play makes it sound as if the events are really going on right then.

The men are escaping on a boat and have run out of food and water. The guy who has threatened them says he will kill the guys since he thinks the other guys have been taking his food and water.

Then it goes back to present time with the three guys still talking.

One of the guys freaks out and goes to his room.

The Shadow questions whether it is one of the three men who is the actual person doing the threatening and not the one they actually believe is the danger.

The two remaining guys find a note saying who will die first.

The play stops and it's time for another Blue Coal commercial, with Buffalo, NY, being snowed in. Apparently the coal was also used in cooking stoves.

The killer apparently shows up. He finds out who betrayed him and another guy. Du Briel (spelling?) offers to help the killer kill the other two guys if the killer will save him.

The Shadow is in the room. The killer throws his knife and misses the Shadow, who has thrown his voice. Du Briel has a gun and he shoots the killer, who then throws another knife and hits Du Briel. Du Briel dies. The killer is not the one they think he is, though.

The Shadow had researched what happened to all the guys in the past. The guy the doctor thought was the killer is actually dead, so the doctor is not in any danger anymore.

The show concludes with another commercial for Blue Coal. It's for a heat regulator, which is a thermostat.

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