The Creeper

W-O-R New York 710 on your dial Now for a transcribed drama of murder by experts murder by experts The mutual broadcasting system presents murder by experts with your host and narrator mr. John Dixon car World famous mystery novelist and author of the recently published bestseller the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle This is John Dixon Carr. Each week at this time, murdered by experts, brings your story of crime and mystery.

It has been chosen for your approval by one of the world's leading detective writers. Those experts, who are themselves, masters of the art of murder and can hold tensely at his side. This time, our guest expert is the noted mystery novelist Lawrence Blochman.

From his first knowledge of the mystery field, Mr. Brockman has chosen a radio classic written by Joseph Roscoe. And now he presents Ms. Mavarone Erskine in the Preaper. It is the hour before dawn, that moment when the huge sprawling metropolis lies deep in slumber.

The streets are empty, safe for the milkman, making his rounds from one dark and department house to another. What look now? There on the third floor. An apartment is brightly lighted. The occupant is an attractive redhead in her early twenties. She sits curled on a couch, speaking on the telephone as the radio plays soft.

Come tell him, you gladdens. I'm waiting on my table. In another page into this guy, I can see a quantity of silver in the eye, but good. What did he look like? He was the Gary Cooper type, Oh, thank you, and sunburned fish full too.

Anyway, he's sitting at one of my tables, trying to get up nerve enough to start a conversation. I'm polite, but nothing else. Well, it's 2 a.m. And we're getting ready to close the place when he finally speaks his piece.