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Quiet Desperation

A bank worker trapped in a miserable routine believes a visiting woman from England will make him rich. When someone gets killed, his troubles become much worse.

A bank employee living a life of quiet desperation decides that a visiting English woman is his path to wealth. A murder leads to desperation of quite another kind\!

Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962.

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“Quiet Desperation.” Suspense. Radio broadcast, August 7, 1947.

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