Till Death Do Us Part

Spence! Tonight Columbia brings you as a guest star. Peter Lorre, one of the spreens past masters of the art of suspense. Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. In this series our stories calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until a last possible moment.

Tonight, for instance, Mr. Lorry plays for us a doctor, a husband, with something dark and terrible on his mind. Was it murder? And if so, can this at last be the really perfect crime? We trust that while you are wondering, we shall keep you in...

...suspense. For suspense tonight, CBS presents Till Death Do Us Part by John Dixon Carr, starring Peter Laurie. Late one night in December of 1941, a man and his wife sat beside the fire in their country cottage.

This man? Look at him. A professor of mathematics, stout, middle-aged, guileless as a child. In the remote corner of England where he lives with his pretty English wife, they save him. Jolly decent fellow, you know, over a farmer.

Isn't he? Always a smile for everybody and so polite. That's why it's such a shame about his wife and that young American. There hasn't been anything between them yet, I'm almost sure. But if the American stays here much longer.

Happy man, this professor craft. His cottage in the country is rather isolated. Three miles from the nearest house, no electricity or a central heating or telephone. And on December nights like this, a great wind comes rushing off the Sussex Downs.

Raffles at the windows, growls in the chimney, and makes unsteady the oil lamp on the table. Professor Ovencraft sits before the fire in a snug, book-line room, and across from him, sewing, sits his young wife Cynthia. A domestic scene. A very domestic scene.