Mortmain

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Tonight, Roma Wines of Fresno, California bring you Jerome Cowan in Mortmain. A suspense play produced, edited and directed for Shenley by William Sphere. Sitting in the chair across the table from me was a dead man.

This stiff, cold finger still touched the shutdown he'd gotten to safeguard his life. Police Chief Martin couldn't seem to sit still a minute to get pacing the floor behind me back and forth, back and forth.

We've been waiting a couple of hours already for the coroner to arrive and examine Screed's body. Meanwhile, every cop in the city was out looking for George Perry, the obvious murderer. Where the devil was that coroner?

You know, it's not the pleasantest thing in the world to sit around a dirty kitchen with nothing to do but stare into the face of a dead man and think... ...think how it all started that day less than three years ago...

...when George Perry, my law partner at the time, walked into our office and told me the good news. Say, oh boy, congratulate me. How it for? You're looking at the next district attorney. What? You?