The Black Widow

Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Fred C. Brannon

With Bruce Edwards, Virginia Lee, Carol Forman, Anthony Warde and Ramsay Ames

The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.