Last Act

Barrister Peter Gaunt made his reputation with the flamboyant if unsuccessful defense of Joseph Barton, accused of strangling his wife. Yarmouth Police Commissioner McCloud also advanced his career with the case. But both men find their faith in the law shaken when, years later, another woman is found dead in the same strange circumstances as Mrs. Barton.

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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