Cherchez la Femme
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In New Orleans, Madame Ottilie Thibault pays O. Henry to find her lost $25,000 after the jeweler who was supposed to invest her money dies, which leads to confusing hints about Morin's good deeds, the suspicious Ms. Liberty, and what invest actually means.
Madame Ottilie Tibault, owner of a prosperous little cafe in the French quarter of New Orleans, gives the $25,000 she has been keeping under her mattress to Gaspard Morin, one of her customers, for "investment." But, before he can tell her what he has invested in, Morin dies. O. Henry agrees to help Madame Tibault find out what happened to the money. His most promising clue is the name of a woman Morin uttered just before he died: "Miss Liberty."
In New Orleans, Madame Ottilie Thibault hires O. Henry to trace her missing $25,000 after the jeweler she trusted to invest it dies, leading to puzzling clues about Morin's charitableness, the shady Ms. Liberty, and what the word invest really meant.
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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