Study for Murder
Inner Sanctum · May 3, 1942 · 22 min · 2,478 words
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Good evening, friends, really, and the thank'em. This is Raymond, your host. William, we have an expert on murder here tonight. He has a rather strange idea. Something about everybody being a potential murderer. Oh, perhaps he's right.
Perhaps one of us here, right in this room, is capable of committing a murder. Take a good look at your neighbor. Maybe he's the one. Alright, let's do this. Maybe he's the one. Ah! Hahaha!
Here it's right, Mr. Ace. That's by Herman Brown. He brings you on a Broadway and Hollywood best-known star. Borrows Karloff. Now appearing in the smash Broadway hit, Osmek and Old Lake. Tonight, Mr. Karloff appears as Herbert Lodge in study for murder, an original radio drama by Figma Miller.
One of the cells of the death house stands a man. holding tightly under the bars. A day's expression on his unit face. He's alive and precious minutes move swiftly away. A burden of death, George Corker.
It is only a few hours before his execution. Suddenly he was still in a surface with expression on his rich face. And his service, large. Are you from the governor? No, Chef. I'm just a psychology.
Oh, my work is to try to keep other people from doing the thing You can help me by answering a few questions. That's not going to do me any good. No, but you couldn't least help other people from making the same mistakes.
I've got to get out of here. I don't want to live. I don't want to die. You were never convicted of a crime before. Where you stand? No. No, I never even got a traffic ticket.
I never harmed anyone in my life until that terrible night. You believe me, don't you? Boy, of course I do. Please, Mr. White. Please, Mr. Marge. Please, you said you're a psychologist. Can't you do such it for me?
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