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For Love or Murder

Suspense · December 8, 1949 · 29 min · 3,855 words

The transcript of “For Love or Murder”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast December 8, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Suspens! Auto-light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Mickey Rooney in For Love or Murder. A suspense play produced and edited by William Speer. Milcox, hello, Wilcox! Right here. Say, aren't you Reming Chester Shotgun, the big game hunter?

I am. Wilcox, someone said you could help me. Now, what are you hunting? A battery from a car. From a car? Well, your safari's over. Just shoot down to your auto-light dealer and get an auto-light stay-full battery. The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use?

Capital! I shouldn't have to scout for water holes anymore! Right, you are! And your auto-light stay-full battery has a fiberglass retaining mat, protecting every positive plate to lengthen battery life. By and recent tests based on SAE life cycle standards, auto-light stay-full batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without stay-full features.

Get an auto light, stay-full battery. The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. Remember, you're always right with auto light. And now with for love or murder and with the performance of Mickey Rooney, auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspend.

Nothing could have stopped me. Nothing on earth could have stopped me. There were drums beating in my head as I left the taxi and started down 55th Street. The moon was high over Jersey, staring.

There was no one outside the building, no one narrowed it all. I walked slowly toward the service entrance and into the cellar. I knew where the back stairs were. We rehearsed the whole thing on paper a hundred times, more than a hundred times.

It wasn't something you blundered into. And it taught me that. It wasn't something you did on the spur of the moment. had to be a calm, organized thing. Murder had to be planned. If anyone saw me going up the back stairs it might cause a little fuss.

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