Conspiracy

by experts. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Murder by Experts, with your host and narrator, the noted mystery writer, Brett Halliday. Mr. Halliday is creator of the world famous detective character, Michael Shane, author of 25 Mystery Novels, and whose latest work, This Is It, Michael Shane, has just been published.

Good evening. This is Brett Halliday. Each week at this time, Murder by Experts brings you a story of crime and mystery, which has been chosen for your approval by one of the world's leading detective story writers. Tonight our guest expert is the noted mystery novelist Ursula Curtis. From the thousands of thrillers she has read and heard, Ms. Curtis has selected a fast-moving, intriguing story of a man seeking

to use the elements to cover murder, as written by that master of suspense Harold Swanton. And now we present Lawson's Herbie in conspiracy. I'm a murderer. So people look at my picture in the papers and point out in shutter.

I wonder how many of them are entitled to do that. I wonder how many of them are murderers too, in their minds, but only the law between their hands and the throat of someone they hate.

You take a city, see? The city full of people, the pious and the profane, the innocent and gilly, where their loves and hates their pride and avarice and jealousy. And in that city of pronouncement is made, that on this day between this hour and that one, there is no law, no retribution, that the crime of murder will go unpunished.

How many of them would stand still? How many? Would you? Sounds like a philosophical problem. But it happened. The city was Greendale, Oregon. The thing is set at free from the law for 24 hours was the Columbia River.