Extortion

The undercurrents of social ambition and hidden secrets in a small American town are shown when Claire Layton’s past is threatened by a college acquaintance. She is burdened by a crime that could ruin her husband’s political career and shatter their ideal existence. Yet the truth that finally emerges brings forgiveness and a strengthened bond.

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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