Super-sleuth Lamont Cranston, (aka "The Shadow") investigates the theft of jewels from a grave.

People are literally flying off balconies to their deaths as Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, tries to make sense out of a confusing jumble of murders, disappearances, jewels that aren't jewels, hidden laboratories and secret formulas.—Doug Sederberg <[email protected]>

Playboy Lamont Cranston (Kane Richmond), is the nephew of police commissioner Cardona (Joseph Crehan), but when a particularly baffling crime comes along, he becomes a masked crime fighter known as 'The Shadow" to help his uncle. In this entry of the series, he solves the riddle that lies behind four deaths, two of which appears to be suicides. With the help (and hindrance) of his "girl Friday" Margot Lane (Barbara Read'), and his taxicab-driving stooge, Shevvie (Tom Dugan), he finds the methods and motives of the guilty party and brings him to justice>—Les Adams <[email protected]>