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Eight Steps to Murder

Inner Sanctum Mysteries · June 4, 1946 · 29 min · 4,144 words

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Lipton tea and lipton soups present in a sanctum mysteries. Good evening, friends of the inner sanctum. When you heard the sound of a squeaking door, it was exactly 30 seconds past the hour for murder.

That don't worry. We won't keep you waiting much longer. Even as I talk to you now, our hero and his victim are standing beside me, wishing I'd dispense with formalities so they can get to more enjoyable pursuits like murder. Now isn't it funny Mr. Host? I feel the same way in hot weather.

You mean the heat makes you feel murders? Now this doesn't sound like our Mary. Please don't misunderstand me Mr. Host. I mean the heat makes me want a dispense with formalities, so I can get to more enjoyable pursuits, like serving myself and my friends tall, cooling glasses of ice-lipped-in tea in my backyard under the trees. Mmm,

what grand iced tea Lipton's makes. So gloriously full-bodied, so full of zip. And it's that brisk-lipped-in flavor that does it. A flavor that's never flat, but always spirited and satisfying. You see, brisk is the word the tea experts themselves use to describe the the lavalier freshness of Lipton's, and those same tea experts agree that in iced teas,

brisk flavor is extra important. That's why, for the best iced tea you ever tasted, you should always insist on Lipton tea. It's good iced, because it's brisk in flavor. So, keep a frosty pitcher of iced Lipton tea always on hand.

Thank you for those cooling thoughts, Mary. Now into our sizzling thriller. Eight steps to murder, written especially for inner sanctum by Emil Tappelman. This is the chronicle of a carefully calculated crime, a crime so twisted and subtle that it had to be blueprinted in advance. As Barry Kroger in the role of Mark Derpfield and

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