A Good Neighbor
Suspense · March 31, 1957 · 26 min · 3,693 words
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and the producer of Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, a master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. We try to avoid cliches and platitudes of suspense. For instance, you will never hear a victim say to a criminal, you can't get away with it, or hardly ever.
Get the bad guys, hardly ever do get away with it. Even when they plan their crimes brilliantly, and except they're getaways with the most meticulous detail. The law doesn't catch up to them. More often than not, they catch up with themselves.
As Joseph Dunlop, alias Andrew Burt does, in a good neighbor, a strange story of retribution, starring Mr. Jeff Chandler. And now, Mr. Jeff Chandler in. $150,000 in diamonds from my employer's food.
Last night I left New York in a second-hand car that jewelry in a steel box locked in the trunk. The theft will be discovered this morning. In a few minutes I'll reach the place where I'll hide on this deserted main coast.
Then I will take the cut stones out of the settings and put them with the other unmounted stones and in a few days I'll leave from Mexico. There I will sell the stones to an agent I have contacted and then I will go on to South America.
My name now is Andrew Burt. I have identification cards in the passport to prove it. They were very expensive, but I will be very rich. And the police will be looking for a man named Joseph Dunlop, who has banished from New York.
And as the narrow back road winds closer to the sea, I can feel the wind rising against the car. The fog is moving in and the headlights bounce back from it, but I can't slow down.
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