Let the Buyer Beware
Description
When Marcy Virtue buys what looks like a regular table at a flea market, it pulls her into the troubled town of Turnwood, Pennsylvania, where Jonathan Dobler's murder was never solved. Marcy must choose between doing what's right and staying loyal to others, but her final discovery brings calm to the town and gives her a feeling that she won the fight for what's good.
Marcy Virtue brings home an antique table she thinks is worth much more than the $25 she paid for it. Her husband brings her back to Earth when he proves it is a U.S. mass-produced piece of furniture. But then she discovers the table has a secret drawer containing a .38 revolver with the owner’s name and address engraved on it. Marcy insists on returning the gun to its owner—a mistake, because she immediately finds herself involved in an unsolved murder.
A seemingly ordinary table bought by Marcy Virtue at a flea market leads her into the tense atmosphere of Turnwood, Pennsylvania, and the unsolved murder of Jonathan Dobler. Her battle between conscience and loyalty culminates in a revelation which brings peace to the town and a sense of moral victory to Marcy.
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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