The Red Scarf
Description
Movie queen Erika Standish kills her longtime lover, actor Tom Turner, when he orders her replaced as costar of his next film. Erika’s husband, Alan, offers to take the blame for the crime, certain he will never be convicted because of what he calls “the unwritten law,” which gives him the right to kill a man who has deceived him. But once he is jailed, Erika proclaims that Alan is the real murderer. Only a red scarf he has purchased can save him from life imprisonment.
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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