The Briefcase Blunder

Harry Owens discovers a briefcase containing $50,000 in cash on the back seat of his cab and takes it home. He sees a trip to Paris for him and his wife, Molly, and a new cab for himself. But Molly insists he return it to its owner, a man Harry remembers picking up at a downtown squash club. The man, named Sloane, stops his game to see Harry, seems annoyed, and refuses to take the briefcase. Molly then insists that Harry take it to the police. Harry agrees and gives it to a lieutenant, who turns out to be Sloane’s squash partner.

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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