Dig Your Own Grave

Murder by Expert. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Murder by Expert. With your host and narrator, Mr. John Dixon Carr, world famous mystery novelist and author of the recently published bestseller, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Good evening. This is John Dixon Carr. Each week at this time, murder by experts brings you a story of crime and mystery which which has been chosen for your approval by one of the world's leading detective writers.

Tonight our guest expert is the noted mystery writer Eliza Lipsky. From the many scholars he has read and enjoyed, Mr. Lipsky has selected a fast-moving sardonic story by Joseph Frosta. And now we present Kenneth Lynch in Dig Your Own Ring.

the question. Did you or did you not kill your wife? Yes, oh no. Yes, oh no. Yes or no. That's a good one. How can I answer it like that just plain yes or no. I've been wondering myself who was the killer, me or that crazy suspicious mind of her.

My wife was a very strange woman. I want to get you inside that mind of her. You'll know then just how it is that a wife could dig her own grave. I swear I was always true to have that.

It's important you understand that. Up to this incident I never even looked at another woman. She'd never believe me though, never. You don't fool me, Eric. You were quite a lady killer when I met you, and men don't change their spots.

When she met me, huh? But what the years had slapped me down to her time and a nagging wife all the jobs she cost me all the future with her suspicions. Don't lie, Erich, you're clumsy at it.