Murder off Key
Suspense · November 15, 1945 · 29 min · 4,505 words
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Now, the Romo Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... A Spence! Tonight, Romo Wine, bring you Mr. Zachary Scott, the star of Murder Off Key. A suspense play produced, edited and directed for Romo Wine's by William Sphere.
The Spence, Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Romo Wine's. That's R-O-M-A, Romo Wine. Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, do your happiness and entertaining guests, do your enjoyment of everyday meals.
Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you Mr. Zachary Scott in a remarkable tale of... SUSPEN! I could just shut out that singing, I'd be alright. If it goes on pounding inside my head and I keep hearing violence, preach those desperate urgency you.
The first time I heard her, I was sitting on the balcony outside the apartment and everything was unnatural still, the way it is late at night. And maybe that's why her singing sounded louder than it actually was.
So something abnormal about it is, though a control in Satteridge snapped and she couldn't stop that horrible noise that was coming from her throat. It went on over and over again, rising and falling and scraping the hot night into shred.
She's pretty terrible, isn't she? What? I'm over here on the next balcony. Oh, sorry, I didn't see you. What did you say? What did you say? She's pretty terrible, isn't she? And she thinks that's a trained boy.
Awful. Did she do it often or only when the moon is full? Oh, she goes on like that almost every year. I just got into New York this afternoon. Are you visiting Mr. Mowalie? Well, in a way, he went out of town and I'm staying in his apartment.
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