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Blood Will Tell

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In a corporate office, the air hums with the chatter of efficiency. Norman Claymore, meticulous and dedicated, navigates his routine in the billing department. His life is structured, tethered to his mother's guarded affections and a growing yet cautious interest in Melisande Resnick from personnel. The office is a place of predictability, and Norman thrives within its ordered world. Norman’s world is shattered when asked to verify his father's cause of death for insurance. This request lights a journey into a concealed past.

At a busy company office, Norman Claymore works carefully in the billing department. He lives a quiet, organized life, caring for his protective mother and slowly getting to know Melisande Resnick from the personnel office. Norman likes his predictable routine and feels comfortable in the orderly workplace. But when insurance forms require him to confirm how his father died, Norman's steady world falls apart. This simple request sends him searching into family secrets that were hidden from him.

Norman Claymore is ordered by a blonde, beautiful personnel department clerk at his office to explain, for life insurance purposes, how his father died. Norman’s doting mother has never told him and now suspects that the personnel women’s only purpose, in pressing for an answer, is to lure Norman away from his Mummy. But Norman determines to find out what happened. And when he does, he becomes a changed man, contemplating murder, with even his mother as a possible victim.

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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