Menace in Wax

For suspense the night we present Menace in Wax by John Dixon Carr. During the French Revolution of 1793, a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those who had just been guillotine.

She married a Frenchman named Tussaud and came to London and she founded Madame Tussaud's wax works. There it is still the Mallybone Road near Baker Street Station, not the original building. That was destroyed by fire.

But it remained untouched when a darker shadow than revolution came to England. And they plastered high explosives all along that road and hit the cinema next door. We are going to London under the bomber's moon.

Late one night in March of 1941, a young man, Hurried up to the great glass doors and made them to south. Hey, open up there! There are night watchmen around this place. There is Governor and I'm in.

Now, what do you want to this hour of the night? My name is Rogers. I'm from the Daily Record. Oh. So let me get inside. I'll show you my press card. Did you get any orders about me?

Well, maybe I have a debt. Oh, you're the bloke who wants to see the chime but of ours. That's right. Alright, you may as well come in. My paper got a tip, there's something funny going on around here.

Something funny going on here? That's a good one. The rain's not very heavy tonight is it? No, they're going over. You ain't heard where, Governor? We got a teletype flash, there was a midlands. No, Lummy and I got assisted in Birmingham.

Oh, why can't she come and stop in a nice, safe place like London? There's the Regent's Pop Gun opening up again. Teeth rattling shakes the axe off the dummy's head. You know, this chamber of ours is getting to be popular tonight.