The Evil Eye
Description
Louise Bates, the country’s best-known female author, is spurred into writing her next novel when she learns that a $1 million advance has been paid to her British competitor. She orders her tax accountant husband John to allow no one to disturb her for ten days. But John, who has been cheating on Louise, leaves home for 30 minutes one day to visit his lady friend. While he’s gone, one of his frantic clients tries to enter the house. Later, the client is found dead. Then the British writer dies. A barking dog down the street dies. John’s girlfriend is certain that Louise possesses an evil eye and that they might be next to die if Louise learns about their relationship.
A female writer thinks she can curse people with bad luck when she gets mad at them. After her husband finds out about her strange power, he teams up with his girlfriend - who is also the writer's agent - to use her ability for their own plans.
When people she becomes angry with suffer cruel misfortune, an authoress of fiction believes she has the power of the evil eye. When her husband discovers her unique ability, he hatches a plot to take advantage of her gift with his lover, who also happens to be her talent manager!
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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