Image of Death: Inner Sanctum Mysteries (October 17, 1949)

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“Image of Death” is an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 17, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Victor Corder, a sculptor, is haunted by a murder he committed five years earlier, when he killed his wife Evelyn and then faked his own death. Living under the name Victor Carlin as a gravestone cutter, he is blackmailed by Kitty Regan, a waitress who discovers his secret. Their relationship grows tangled as Kitty pressures him for money and carvings. In the Inner Sanctum Mysteries series, this episode aired on October 17, 1949, written by Ed Adamson and Barb Sloane, with Barry Kroeger as Victor and Gene Alice Mastrotti as Kitty.

A sculptor's studio and cemetery workshop, a city apartment, and a hotel in an unnamed American city, in the late 1940s.

Characters: Victor Corder, Kitty Regan, Evelyn Corder, George Adrian, Frank Rogers

Listen for: Victor's account of how he came to be living under another name, and the shifting pressure Kitty places on him.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.