House4x-xx-xxxxx Death Is An Accident

Mystery House. Mystery House. That strange publishing firm owned by Dan and Barbara Glenn, where each new novel is acted out by the Mystery House staff before his acceptance for publication.

Mystery House. The title for the story we're trying out tonight for a Mystery House novel, Barbie. Murder is an accident. I suppose it's about a murder that's made to look like an accident? It's a story about a murder that is an accident, Dan.

Well, but murder is never an accident. If it's an accident, well, it just isn't murder. Well, this is...wait and see. Oh, and I don't tell me you're going to try to fool me with a little technicality.

Well, say, Mr. Glenn, don't sneer at little technicality. Is there very important? Not to me, Tom. Well, they're important to everybody, Mr. Glenn. That's why we have to be so scrupulously careful of what we say in my part of the show.

Everything exactly right. Here's what I mean. Okay, pleasure everybody. Set the scene, will you Tom? Death is an accident. Tonight's story opens in a car that's rolling along a country road at 5.30 in the morning.

Hal Bennett, editor of a country weekly paper is driving, and his wife is registering a mild protest. I could learn to hate you, Hell. Getting me out of bed at five o'clock just because some guy disappeared three years ago.

Oh, now Pam, I thought you were a mystery fiend. Besides, I need you as a cameraman. Photography's a wonderful science, but you can't take pictures of something that happened three years ago. So why bother me just when I was having a wonderful dream?