Broadcast: 29th July 1948

Starring: Wally Maher, Cathy Lewis

Added: Nov 17 2005

It had started like any other day, a widow named Mrs Coplis had hired Shayne to track down one of her boarders who had run away with her copper samovar and he feared the good widows heart, a guy had called to ask his rates for getting divorce evidence against his blond wife and then an old man named Peters came in. The kind of old guy you might see in Jackson Square sleeping on the grass with a newspaper over his face only this old man had a million dollars worth of the biggest pearls Shayne had ever seen in his whole life…