The City of the Dead 2 (I've Dug Up Something Ghastly)

Adventures by Morse. County Morse presents... The City of the Dead, featuring Captain Friday. If you like big adventure, come with me. If you like stealth and intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder, come with me.

But first, our sponsor, The City of the Dead. Midnight in October. A night when almost anything is liable to happen, and much already has. Old Joshua Friday, mayor of the city of the dead, otherwise known as the caretaker of the old cemetery no longer in use, had just been mysteriously shut.

The shooting took place when Mayor Friday pulled a bellrope in the little church ruins at the lower end of the city of the dead. Old Dr. Tuner and the mayor had been led to the abandoned ruins in their search for the phantom toll of a church bell.

They found no bell, just a bellrope. When the mayor pulled it, he was shot. And now back in the mayor's cottage at the other end of the city of the dead. Earlier in the evening, Dr. Tuner and the mayor had locked up young Jimmy Parker and the girl, Phyllis Carroll, who had stopped there for aid

when their parked car had been stolen from them by gunmen. But that was nine o'clock. It's midnight now, and Dr. Tuner had carried the unconscious body of his friend from the old church back to the caretaker's cottage.

Is he dead? Of course not. You think I'd love a dead body through a cemetery at midnight? How badly has he heard? Oh, I reckon it's just a scalp wound. Who shot him? I wish I knew him, Miss Carol. I reckon I'll do a bit of telephony.