The City of the Dead 4 (Old Clawfoot Again)

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

First a message from our sponsor. 8 o'clock on Sunday morning. The second day in the City of the Dead. 8 o'clock in the morning after a night of unearthly events and sudden death, and it all seems to be scented about the caretaker's cottage at the gate of the old abandoned cemetery.

Those present include the caretaker himself, that are known as Mayor Joshua Friday, Dr. Tuner retired, all his patients are laid away in the city of the dead, Captain Friday, Son of the Mayor, and Private Investigator from San Francisco, who has come down to the city the dead to help his father fight grave robbers. The only person's caught in the net so far are

Jimmy Parker, a nice looking college boy and his girlfriend, Phyllis Carroll. At two o'clock this fog choked winter morning, Captain Friday was roused from sleep to find a phantom-like white robed figure. Its face covered with long white flowing hair, patrolling about the caretaker's cottage. Yes, I awaken Jimmy Parker and the two of us slipped out of the house and around the corner

just in time to see the phantom creature leap on the figure of the man, who at the moment was attempting to break into the cottage. The man died instantly under the gleaming knife in the creature's clawed hand. Before Parker I could stop at the thing had gone.

Yeah, Captain Friday and I rushed to the scene but the housebreaker was dead. Captain Friday sent me back into the house for Doctor Tuner. I wasn't gone more than a couple of minutes, but when we got back, not only was a murdered man gone, but Captain Friday was lying on the ground unconscious and a peculiar thing all the time this was happening