The Woman in Red
Description
A surprising criminal takes a well-known artwork. The thief who grabbed the masterpiece has very detailed and far-reaching plans for what to do with the painting.
An unlikely thief steals a famous painting. The person who made off with the masterpiece has highly specific and long term plans for the art piece.
"The Woman in Red," a valuable portrait on loan from Holland, is stolen from a museum by an expert thief who is identified in a documentary film, shot just before the theft occurred. But when the police track him down, the thief is dead. Two others suspected of being involved in the robbery are also killed before the police can question them. That, however, doesn't faze a woman detective, Maria Rodriguez, who majored in art while in college.
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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