A Phantom Yesterday

German entertainer Lilo Richter and American spy writer Gil Blake get caught up in each other's complicated lives during a time of political trouble in a split city. When they search for the missing politician known as Herr Walnut, they face deadly threats but finally uncover a Nazi scheme to demand ransom money.

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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