A Better Mousetrap

When Lucy Lester confronts her husband Ralph with the fact that he not only has been unfaithful but also has squandered her insurance, he panics and unintentionally chokes her to death. Then he plots with his secretary girlfriend to make it seem that Lucy has been kidnapped and killed by her abductors. The police seem to buy this explanation for the moment.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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