The Dead House
Description
Mark Twain meets Karl Ritter while researching a story in Germany about Munich's "dead house," where corpses were kept until it became clear they were really dead. Ritter, now dying, had worked in the "dead house" and reveals to Twain his successful attempt to divert the mighty Mississippi River and his killing of a Union cavalryman who not only murdered his wife and baby daughter, but also stole $25,000 from him. Ritter asks Twain to perform a "small" favor.
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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