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The Fountain Plays is an unusual murder study. It deals with the fortunes and misfortunes of a middleclass Englishman by the name of Archibald Spiller. He lives on a little country estate with a cook and a manservant and in the garden a fountain. Original Air Date: November 23, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Charles […]

A story about the troubles getting rid of a dead body at a seaside resort. Original Air Date: November 16, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Robert Cummings Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

An American husband named Ed Bliss in a story of Marriage and Murder. Original Air Date: September 14, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Joseph Cotten Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Author:• Cornell Woolrich Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

It is 1939 shortly before England and Germany were at war. Judith was in London serving as travelling companion to wealthy American Mrs. Prescott. When Mrs. Prescott died Judith had promised to arrange her a burial at sea. It was on this journey that she learned of the “Blackout Killer” and feared that he was […]

It was their first day in Havana. Taking a hack in a open horse drawn carriage they had spent the afternoon driving around seeing the sights. They had stopped off in a bar and had just had their photograph taken when suddenly Eve collapsed… Original Air Date: August 31, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Brian […]

On a dusky summers night in 1927 Marsha made her final exit from the stage after being murdered. In the wake of his glamorous daughters demise from the stage, Maurice slid into depression. After witnessing a miserable modern dressed caricature of the Bard’s greatest play MacBeth he reappears with an idea to avenge his daughter […]

A most handsome man is following Sophronia Winters. When they meet she feels like she’s known him all of her life, and they fall in love. Before long, they decide to marry and be alone together. Soon after their marriage the cracks in their relationship begin to appear… Original Air Date: August 17, 1944Host: Andrew […]

On a late-night train, Mr. Pender strikes up a chilling conversation with a stranger about the perfect undetectable murder—a potion that only becomes fatal after a hot bath. A mere theory… or a deadly secret? With recent mysterious bathtub deaths, the line between fiction and reality blurs. Tune in for a gripping tale of intrigue […]

In the interest of justice Sir William Brent, ex-head of English Criminal Investigation, and his friend Arthur Grange make use of an unusual method to ring a confession of guilt from a criminal. Original Air Date: August 03, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Donald Crisp• John Loder Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Author:• […]

Twin sisters live alone in a large house. One of them is crazy, the sane one buys a coffin! Original Air Date: February 03, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Ida Lupino• Agnes Moorehead Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

Murder stalks the owner of the second largest diamond in the world. Original Air Date: January 27, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Virginia Bruce• Allyn Joslyn• George Zuko Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A young girl has been murdered, but the foul deed was “seen” by a blind man! Original Air Date: January 20, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Paul Lukas Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

You Were Wonderful stars Lena Horne as a noted entertainer called Lorna Dean who finds herself embroiled with dangerous intrigue and murder in a South American capital. Original Air Date: November 09, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Lena Horne Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Author:• Robert L. Richards Intro and Exit music from: […]

A madman has been murdering dance hall girls and then dancing with their bodies to the tune of, “Poor Butterfly!” Original Air Date: January 13, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Lucille Ball Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A story about a dead body on a roller coaster, and a wrecked hold-up getaway car…which is all grist for a private eye’s mill. Original Air Date: January 06, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Alan Ladd Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A story of murder and mystery at a girl’s school. Original Air Date: December 30, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Margo• Elsa Lanchester• Janet Beecher Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A meek British botany professor plans a “Devil’s Garden” in the basement; a grave for his henpecking wife! Original Air Date: December 23, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Peter Lorre Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

Who killed the curate? Almost everybody, it seems! On this rainy afternoon we should like you to meet the Princy family and their visitor. They are of course at home, Mrs Princy, daughter Millicent, George the son and heir and Finally Mr Princy. They are any middle class family at home on a wet day […]

An insurance investigator is convinced that his wife is a pyromaniac. It is the story of a husband and a wife and how they come to know that death was living with them… Original Air Date: December 09, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Robert Young• Margo Writer:• Sigmund Miller Author:• Cornell Woolrich Producer:• William Spier […]

A man recovers from amnesia to find himself wanted for murder. Original Air Date: December 02, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Cary Grant Author:• Cornell Woolrich Producer:• William Spier Music:• Lud Gluskin• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

An Allied spy undercover in Berlin feels the noose of discovery slowly tightening. “I was infuriated to think that I had been trapped. The thought that someone had discovered by intentions maddened me to the breaking point. Nothing had slipped, everything had run smoothly as I had planned. No evidence, not the slightest trace, nothing. […]

A confused mystery about black marketeers and double murder. Original Air Date: November 16, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Gene Kelly Special Guests:• Hans Conried• Bill Johnstone Writer:• Robert L. Richards Producer:• William Spier Music:• Lud Gluskin• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A very well-done and suspenseful drama about a new bride whose husband disappears aboard a cruise ship. Original Air Date: November 09, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Margo• Philip Dorn Special Guests:• Dennis Hoey• Bill Johnstone Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Music:• Lud Gluskin• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by […]

A cop’s brother wakes from a drugged stupor to find himself a killer! Original Air Date: November 02, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Van Johnson Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

Six men are trapped in an elevator; one of them has been murdered. Whodunnit? Original Air Date: October 26, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Otto Kruger Writer:• Robert L. Richards Author:• Cornell Woolrich Producer:• William Spier Music:• Lud Gluskin• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A man who came back from the dead…able to detect a lie and compelled to correct it. Original Air Date: October 19, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Orson Welles Writer:• John Dickson Carr Author:• J.M. Speed Producer:• William Spier Music:• Wilbur Hatch• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A couple living in the English countryside has a few secrets to hide, from each other. Original Air Date: October 07, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Geraldine Fitzgerald• Orson Welles Writer:• Harold Medford Producer:• William Spier Author:• Agatha Christie Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

You are speeding through the English countryside, the fast express train rocking beneath your feet. You know that somewhere in the dark ahead of you, a band of men are plotting the destruction of the train. They are planning the moment of your death. Original Air Date: September 30, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Orson […]

A hunt for the deadliest animal of all…man! Through swamps and jungles…hunter against hunted. Original Air Date: September 23, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Orson Welles• Keenan Wynn Writers:• Richard Connell• Jack Finke Producer:• William Spier Music:• Bernard Herrmann• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A continuously twisting adventure involving a millionaire’s estate and his three heirs, who are out to kill each other. Original Air Date: September 16, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Virginia Bruce• John Loder Writer:• Robert L. Richards Author:• Dorothy Hughes Producer:• William Spier Director:• Ted Bliss Music:• Bernard Herrmann• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music […]

A couple living out on the Cape with the sound of constant foghorns are heading for a murder. Original Air Date: September 09, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Lillian Gish• Ray Collins• Bramwell Fletcher Writer:• Walker T. Field Producer:• William Spier Director:• Ted Bliss Music:• Bernard Herrmann• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence […]

A man has committed murder, or has he? Original Air Date: September 02, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Preston Foster• Dane Clark Author:• Robert L. Richards Writer:• Cornell Woolrich Producer:• William Spier Director:• Ted Bliss Music:• Bernard Herrmann• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A touch of voodoo in Nazi occupied Denmark? This story is played against the background of the new order in Europe, a story of an oppressed people who used strange and effective methods in dealing with their oppressors and traitors… Original Air Date: August 28, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Dolores Costello• Martin Koslick• George […]

Sorry Wrong number is the dramatic and tense story of an invalid woman, Mrs. Stevenson who is all alone at home and trying desperately to contact her husband by telephone. When she contacts the operator to connect her, she accidentally overhears a conversation about death and strives frantically to prevent murder from claiming an innocent […]

Ten years ago Tom Nixon had killed Miss Rhodes’ mother in cold blood and was now in jail for it or so Rose thought until that day that she saw him in her building in the elevator and discovered he was the night man. She fears that he has escaped and come back to kill […]

Mr. Archibald Spiller, conservative John Bull that he may be, has lately had a bit of luck. Mr Spiller lives on a little country estate with a cook and a manservant and in the garden a fountain. Of all these little luxuries it is the fountain that pleases him the most an interesting sort of […]

A man has a recurring dream about the Hamilton-Burr duel. Original Air Date: August 03, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Robert Young• Geraldine Fitzgerald Writers:• Fria Howard Producer:• William Spier Author:• James Thurber Director:• Robert Lewis Shayon Music:• Lucien Moraweck• Bernard Herrmann Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

An office murder starts to prey of the mind of the killer. Original Air Date: November 02, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Gene Lockhart Author:• John Shaw Producer:• William Spier Music:• Lud Gluskin• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A scientist has an interesting theory about “The Five Checks To Murder”. Original Air Date: July 27, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Laird Cregar• Walter Kingsford• Ian Wolfe• Harold Huber• Helen Vinson• George Coulouris Writer:• Richard Kreyke Producer:• William Spier Director:• Robert Lewis Shayon Music:• Lucien Moraweck Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter […]

The first radio appearance of “The Lone Wolf”. A treasure hunt at a society party leads Michael Lanyard to a dead bathing-beauty and a dead gossip columnist. Original Air Date: July 20, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Warren William• Eric Blore Writer:• Louis Joseph Vance Producer:• William Spier Director:• Robert Lewis Shayon Music:• Bernard Herrmann• […]

A story about a maniacal murderer, one who kills only young girls and leaves a white rose behind. Original Air Date: July 06, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Maureen O’Hara Writer:• Cornell Woolrich Producer:• William Spier Director:• Ted Bliss Conductor:• Bernard Herrmann Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

What on earth is Aunt Julie up to? And where is Uncle Henry? Original Air Date: June 29, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Agnes Moorehead• Ellen Drew• Ted Reid Writer:• Larry Roman Producer:• William Spier Director:• Ted Bliss Conductor:• Bernard Herrmann Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A thriller set in rural England. What is the secret of the invisible man terrorizing the countryside? You’ll never guess! Original Air Date: June 22, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• George Zucco• John Sutton Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Director:• Ted Bliss Conductor:• Bernard Herrmann Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter […]

The story of a corpse in the rumble seat and a debt-ridden dude ranch. Original Air Date: June 15, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Margo Smith• Kent Smith Author:• Cornell Woolrich Producer:• William Spier Director:• Ted Bliss Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A fun filled bachelor party turns serious when a dead body, a vanishing apartment and those damn birds are introduced. Original Air Date: June 08, 1943Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Ona Munson• Lee Bowman• Osa Massen Director:• Ted Bliss Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A wife with a shady past tries to get the evidence needed to clear her husband of a charge of murder. Original Air Date: October 19, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Nancy Kelly Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

Susan Appleby says she is about to be murdered, she’s not certain; no one has even threatened her. She is sitting in a plain ordinary looking kitchen but to her it is a death house… Original Air Date: July 27, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• May Whitty• Maureen O’Sullivan Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William […]

“The Maestro,” a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steam room! Original Air Date: July 20, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Peter Lorre Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A man vows to kill the hit and run driver who killed his son, and he’s keeping a diary of his plans! Felix Laine a writer by profession of detective novels who was planning to kill a man. He didn’t know his name, where he lived or what he looked like but he knew that […]

A man who has just finished writing a symphony hears the exact same symphony on the radio. He had just set down the last note on paper he was happy and weary and full of peace. There was a radio near the couch, he sat down and turned it on and felt great horror as […]