Threes a Crowd

Murder by experts. A mutual broadcasting system presents Murder by Experts. With your host and narrator, the noted mystery writer, Brett Halliday. Mr. Halliday is creator of a world famous detective character, Michael Shane. Author of 25 mystery novels and whose latest work, This Is It, Michael Shane, has just been published.

This is Brett Halliday. Each week at this time, Murder by Experts springs you a story of crime and mystery, which has been chosen for your approval by one of the world's leading detective story writers.

This time our guest expert is the noted mystery novelist Lenore Glenn Offert. From her wide knowledge of the field of mystery, Miss Offert has chosen the tenth and dramatic tale of a man who found himself emmeshed in a web of jealousy and violence.

With an ending he didn't foresee, as written by George and Gertrude Faz. And now we present John Sylvester and Joyce Gordon in Freeze a Crowd. A suitcase full of clothes and a hundred arrangements, a pop tune shook and get heavy on a hot day.

My arms fell as if they'd been unhinged at the joints by the time I'd walked a mile from the main road to the hedge hop in. It was a long low white building, sitting back about a hundred feet from the road.

This was it. The roadhouse where I would spend the next three months pounding the ivories. At this hour of the morning the entrance hall was empty. And so was the dining room. I walked straight through and pushed open a swinging door that looked as if it might lead into the kitchen. It did. Well I find Mr. Hedges.