Death Has a Thousand Faces

The mutual broadcasting system presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and starring tonight, two of radio's foremost personalities, Martin Wolfson and Gertrude Warner, in an original radio drama titled Death Has A Thousand Faces.

This is The Mysterious Traveler. Inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip and it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves and be comfortable if you can. As you hear the story I call, death has a thousand faces. A story begins at police headquarters in an Eastern metropolis.

In a small, shabbily furnished office, Horace Riker, a patrol officer for the State Prison Commission is seated at his desk, which is completely covered with gift packages. As Horace, a small, mild-mannered man in his late 40s, starts to open some of the gifts that are knocking his door.

Come in. Oh, hello, Captain. Hello, Horace. Well, I've been under the boys for gotcha. Twenty-five years with the State Prison Commission. That's a long time. Yes, I never knew I had so many friends. Why look at all these gifts, they must be at least twenty.

Well, here's another one, Horace. This is for me and the other boys in the homicide squad. Oh, I... I don't know how to thank you and the others, Captain. You've all been so kind. Ah, nonsense, Horace.

You know how we all feel about you. I am really a very lucky man, Captain. I have a job I like, fine friend, and a wonderful wife. And so you and Millie are hitting it off?