Crime Casts a Shadow
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Gay Armstrong, in need of cash, tries to sell her late mother’s expensive pearl necklace but is told by a jeweler that the pearls are fake. When her stepfather offers her $15,000 for the fake necklace, Gay becomes suspicious. She doesn’t want to hurt her stepfather but is not satisfied with his explanation that her mother has sold the real necklace to help pay some medical bills.
In Ruth Ann McGinnis' gripping story about a small American town, Gay Armstrong is a strong-willed young woman who finds out her mother's pearl necklace isn't real. She teams up with her friends - a clever lawyer and a smart reporter - to uncover a corruption scheme that her stepfather is mixed up in.
Ruth Ann McGinnis’ tense drama, set in a small American town, where Gay Armstrong, a determined young woman, discovers that the pearl necklace she inherited from her mother is a fake. With her friends, a sharp-witted lawyer and an insightful reporter, she unearths a bribery scandal that has involved her stepfather.
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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