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Never Steal a Butcher's Wife

Suspense · December 29, 1957 · 20 min · 2,915 words

The transcript of “Never Steal a Butcher's Wife”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast December 29, 1957. 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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suspense, and the producer of radio is outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William and Robeson. A supermarket, you will agree, is a rather unlikely place for clandestine love, terror, and murder.

But as constant listeners to suspense already know, anything can happen in the curious and macabre imagination of James Poe. And Mr. Paul has chosen an ordinary everyday supermarket as the locale of his frightening story, Never Steel of Butcher's Wife.

This truly chilling tale has only one happy aspect. It serves as a vehicle for the return to the air after much too long an absence of one of Radio's finest actresses, Miss Kathy Lewis. Listen, listen then as Miss Lewis and William Conrad co-star in Never Steel of Butcher's Wife.

And now, steel of butcher's wife, co-starring Mr. William Conrad and Miss Cathy Lewis. A tail well calculated to keep you in. It started the first day of the job. I was clerking the liquor department of this supermarket.

I hadn't been in Los Angeles for about a week. My brother, when I left New York had given me this letter to a friend. I was a guy who owned a string of these supermarkets.

This guy had this opening liquor clerk and comes following Monday and I'm at work. It's one of those big places with hardly any clerks, you know? You pushed a little cart around and you helped yourself.

To get out, you passed the cash register and the girl loaded your stuff and rang up the price. Well, that's where the trouble was, this girl at the checkstand. I hadn't noticed her until around noon and when I happened to look up, there she was looking at me.

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