The Shrieking Prisoner Murder Case (Pt. 2)

presenting Mr. Keene, the eraser of lost persons, in our new Mr. Keene series, in which the kindly old investigator brings to us his most celebrated cases, on Mondays through Fridays at this same time. Tonight, the shrieking prisoner murder case.

The scene opens at night in a large old-fashioned house in a lonely section of New York City. A young man has just entered the darkened interior, and as he moves across the room, he hears a sudden blood-curdling shriek of frustration and anguish coming from another part of the house.

The young man stands frozen for a moment. Then as he quickly moves to a door and opens it, a shot rings out. A moment later, a murderer peers down with grim satisfaction at the figure on the floor.

the lifeless body of a young man with a bullet through his heart. And now Mr. Keene, the famous investigator and his partner Mike Clancy, are looking into the murder. The scene of the crime is a home owned by two weird sisters, Martha and Amy Carson. And the murdered man is their niece's young husband. Why has he been murdered? Mr.

Keene is first attempting to find the source of the frightful shrieking which has been heard in the house. But he and Mike are being blocked by Martha Carson and Luther Prague, her burly handyman, who has entered the room with an axe in his hand. Mr. Keene says, Martha Carson, I'm here with my partner, Mike Clancy, to investigate the murder of young

Donald Treviz. I suggest you tell your handyman to let us go upstairs to find out who's You're shrieking up there. No. You can't go up there. If you go up, I'll chop your boat to pieces.