The Heel of Achilles
Description
To convince his wife their home isn't haunted, a rich man decides to stay there overnight by himself, where ghosts from his past come to see him.
At 60, Roland K. Palfrey had never made a mistake: His business acumen parlayed a small company into an international conglomerate. Then he met Marian—lovely, gracious and half his age—and married her on the spot. Was it a mistake to think the beautiful Marian would stay faithful to a man old enough to be her father?
In order to prove to his wife that the house is not plagued by spirits, a wealthy man agrees to spend the night there. Alone, he is visited by the phantoms of his past.
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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