The Deadly Dummy

Come in, come in. Tonight we're inaugurating a quiz. It's a cutthroat session called, Take It or Drop Day. To qualify, just tear off the top of your neighborhood mortician and send it to us by hair mail.

Ha ha ha. Now, listen to this. Here's our terra tune. If you could guess the correct title of our morbid Miss Erka, in one scream or less, here are the prizes you'll win. A brand new 1949 stainless steel guillotine.

Just the thing for whittling down your wife's overhead. And a handsome hand-tool Florentine dagger. The knife without a conscience. And the take-it-or-drop-dead grab of free, all-expense, murdered trial in the court of your own choosing.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. This inner Sankham mystery, the deadly dummy, was written by Ed Adams and Robert Sloane, and stars Mason Adams in the role of Steve with Elspotheric as Claire.

Let's get to tonight's shivering Shindy. Hmm? Oh, by the way, let me warn you, all references to ghosts living or dead. Is anything but coincidence? This is what happened to a guy named Steve Pearson.

Why did he keep asking me the questions? Why don't you ask Marlow? Ask him Inspector, he'll tell you everything. I told you before, Piersen, Marlow wasn't there. He is, he's in this room sitting right there in that chair.

That's just if Antriloquis dummy in the chair. You told me yourself, Marlow is dead. I don't understand that dummy is Marlow. I can prove it to you, that dummy is alive real. All right, all right, so he's alive. You think I'm crazy?

Go ahead, Piersen. Let's hear the story, all of it, from the beginning. It began when I went to work as Marlowe's assistant. He was billed as the great Marlowe. The great Marlowe, his audience, has always thought he was a wonder.