The Dead House

CBS Radio Mystery Theater "The Dead House" is a Mystery from Friday, December 29, 1978.

Mark Twain meets Karl Ritter while researching a story in Germany about Munich's "dead house," where corpses were kept until it became clear they were really dead. Ritter, now dying, had worked in the "dead house" and reveals to Twain his successful attempt to divert the mighty Mississippi River and his killing of a Union cavalryman who not only murdered his wife and baby daughter, but also stole $25,000 from him. Ritter asks Twain to perform a "small" favor.