How Can I Ever Thank You
Description
Algernon Barraclough, author of ten successful novels, is so impressed with the first manuscript of young Malcolm Tinsley that he persuades his publisher to buy it. The story, even though Barraclough later describes it “a grubby potboiler for sex-starved neurotics,” is an immediate best-seller, and soon Tinsley has replaced Barraclough as the publisher’s favorite author. When Tinsley is found murdered, Barraclough becomes the logical—and only—suspect.
A failed writer from Gregory E. Zuckerman's play in the CBS series 'Best Plays' calls upon the Devil when he feels hopeless. The Devil promises him success and money if he will kill a competing writer. This puts the man in a fight between right and wrong as he discovers he has given up his soul for worthless things.
Gregory E. Zuckerman's play, from the CBS series 'Best Plays,' tells of an unsuccessful author who, in a moment of despair, summons the Devil and is offered fame and fortune if he will dispose of a rival. This leads him to a struggle with his conscience and the realization that he has traded his soul for nothing.
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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