What happens
Sculptor Jan Roth becomes obsessed with carving a study of death, and his model Elaine Moffitt is later found strangled in a river. Detective Harold Jordan of homicide questions her roommate Nancy Craig and the artists who employed Elaine, including Roth and a man named Ross. Jordan begins to suspect that a violent and unsettling presence is connected to the case. The story follows the investigation as the characters' fears deepen and events grow increasingly dangerous. This episode of the Murder at Midnight series features the story The Man Who Was Death by Robert Newman.
New York City, in an artist's studio, police headquarters, and the city's subway platforms
Characters: Jan Roth, Elaine Moffitt, Nancy Craig, Harold Jordan, Ross, Clayton, Mrs. Dolan
Listen for: Listen for the sculptor's growing obsession with capturing death in his work and for Jordan's questioning of the witnesses.
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.