The Man Who Couldn’t Get Arrested
Description
Trouble starts when two different worlds crash together: one where a stock trader killed his wife and another where she's still living.
Problems begin when two parallel realities collide: One in which the stock broker murdered his wife and one where his wife is alive
A Wall Street broker can’t figure out whether he’s dreaming or awake when his wife tries to tell him somebody’s going to murder her. Wherever he goes one evening, Hector Freemont Carnehan keeps hearing a plea from his wife, Penelope, to save her—somebody’s trying to kill her. The next day Penelope—alive and unharmed—visits Hector at his office and assures him that her life has not been threatened. But later that night Hector is told by his boss that Penelope has been found dead at their country home.
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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