074- Red Wine -Willard Waterman

Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights, is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the air three weeks from tonight on Thursday, September 1st. You are with three men and a jungle plantation on the rubber coast of Varnio.

You know that one of the men is a desperate criminal whom you've come to arrest, but you don't know which one. You have to find him before he can save himself by killing you. We offer you escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure.

Tonight we escape to a Borneo jungle in a tantalizing search for a murderer, as LG Blochman told it in his famous story, Red Wine. As the rusty little tramp raider bumped against the rickety wharf, I dropped from the rail under the planking, and for the first time felt the humid, heaped roll out of the jungle

like steam from the back door of a Turkish band. I've come a long way. Six days before I'd stepped off a float in San Francisco Bay, I'm aboard a Pan-American clipper headed to the South Pacific.

Two days later, I'd boarded the mailboard in Batavia. And now, Tan-Yong Samah, sweltering and half-forgotten, last outpost in the rubber coast of Borneo. Here's a long journey, but here would now might be end of it.

I'd come to arrest a murderer. I crossed the beach and walked up the path of crushed shells leading to a low bungalow at the edge of the jungle. The freighter would lie at the war for four hours, plenty of time for me to get the thing over with and be back aboard when she sailed.