Your Move, Mr. Ellers
Description
Tim Wheelan is assigned by his insurance company to investigate the continuing robberies at the Maudley and Son jewelry emporium. Even though convinced the heists are inside jobs, Whelan can find no verification until a daily lunchtime chess game between the store’s most respected employee and a new salesman attracts his attention. What interests him even more is an evening chess game in which one of the players is a former fence, but now a respectable importer-exporter.
Chess seems the perfect foil for a sophisticated jewel thief. An insurance investigator looks into the theft of several diamonds and other jewels from a jeweler. A stolen emerald and a game of chess lead him to look into the lives of three supsects: an employee; a long time member at the jewelry store; and a fence. Every character in this story is a chess fan.
A smart jewel thief uses chess as the perfect cover. When diamonds and other precious stones are stolen from a jewelry store, an insurance investigator starts digging. A missing emerald and a chess game point him toward three possible suspects: a store worker, a longtime customer, and someone who sells stolen goods. All the people in this story love playing chess.
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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