Mark Hendricks, a young costume jewelry salesman in Boston, is in the private office of Sam Heiler when a registered parcel arrives containing a sixty-one pearl necklace insured for $650,000. When the box is opened, it holds only sugar cubes wrapped in newspaper, and the necklace has vanished. Police and a postal inspector question the mailman, the secretary Jeannie Cummings and Mark, who stays close to Sam. Sam offers a reward for information, and Mark begins to work out how the switch could have been made and what to do with the pearls.
Characters: Mark Hendricks, Sam Heiler, Jeannie Cummings, Detective Kelly, Inspector Shoe, Mr. Larkin, Detective Colley
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And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's Outstanding Theater of Prills, Sus Fence. Tonight, we bring you the story of a fantastic theft of a million-dollar pearl necklace. We call it the End of the String. So now, starring Stacey Harris, here is tonight's suspense play, The End of the String The necklace consisted of sixty-one perfectly matched pearls.
It was insured for six hundred and fifty thousand dollars and was probably worth about a million. I got to know about the deal because Sam liked me I guess because in Boston I wasn't competition.
Just a nice young fellow who was trying to get ahead in costume jewelry. That's why I happened to be in his private office when the parcel containing the pearls arrived. I told you young fella, you were going to see something this morning.
That's what you said, Sam. Yeah, I like you. You call me Sam. Since I've been a big high finance, you know, I got to be Mr. Hyla. You're not impressed. I like that. Eh, I should have had a son like you to pass the business.
Go ahead. Pass it anyway. I'm up for adoption. Hey, smart. Come over here to the window. You ever see a million dollars? Like in the necklace you told me about? With it in the package?
Yeah, the same. How come you haven't delivered by mail Sam? Isn't that risky? Mm-hmm. Sam Hilah's no dope. You get a messenger to carry it from Detroit to Boston. What happens? Somebody gives them a crack in the head.
Registered mail this day don't touch. I'm glad to know about that. I'm just liable to send myself a million bucks. Don't worry, someday maybe you will. Hand me the scissors that will do on the desk.
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It turns out nobody's going to get that. That takes care of the reward. Anybody get a dime for a lawyer? suspense, in which Stacey Harris starred in tonight's presentation of The End of the String.
Next week we bring you a story of a mother, a father, a locked door, and a baby. We call it the Suller Door. That's next week on SUSPENSE. SUSPENSE is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script was written by David Williams. The music was composed by by Lucian Moroek and René Gerrigan, and conducted by Wilbur Hatch, featured in the cast where
Benny Rubin, Murray Jane Croft, Larry Thor, Jim Nusser, and Jack Crucion. There may be two sides to most stories, but where a story of crime is concerned, there's only one place to be, and that is on the right side of the law. Unfortunately for him, the nice-looking boy finds himself on the wrong side of the law, when the FBI in peace and
War Next goes into action to track down an impulsive killer. How they link the handsome youth to the ugly crime is a story in itself. A story you want to hear tomorrow night over most of the same CBS radio stations on the FBI in Peace and War. Stay tuned for five minutes of CBS News to be followed on most of these same stations by the Jack Carson Show.
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