The Dead, Dead Ringer
Description
An ex-cop finds work as a messenger for local mobster. When he delivers the message, he is surprised to walk into a murder. The woman has a smoking gun in her hand, and a body on the floor. When he sees that he is a dead ringer for the woman's dead husband, he suspects that something fishy is going on.
Private detective Bruce Hart accepts underworld boss Mario Procacci’s offer of $1,000 to deliver the message, “You can be replaced,” to his playboy son-in-law, Howie Marsden. After arriving at the Marsden home, Hart finds Procacci’s daughter, Penny, innocent though she is, holding a gun over her dead husband’s body. When Hart sees the uncanny resemblance between Marsden and himself, he quickly switches identities, hoping that the real murderer will try to strike again.
A former police officer gets a job delivering messages for a neighborhood crime boss. When he brings the message to its destination, he stumbles into a killing scene. A woman stands holding a gun that just fired, with a dead man lying nearby. He notices he looks exactly like the woman's deceased husband and thinks something suspicious is happening.
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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